different between stygian vs nether
stygian
English
Etymology
From Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from ???? (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?st?d?.i.?n/
Adjective
stygian (comparative more stygian, superlative most stygian)
- Dark and gloomy.
- Infernal or hellish.
Usage notes
- See also Stygian, which means "of, by or relating to the river Styx".
Translations
Anagrams
- staying
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nether
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /n?ð.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /n?ð.?/
- Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”).
Adjective
nether (comparative nethermore, superlative nethermost)
- Lower; under.
- The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
- the nether regions
- 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, page187:
- When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
Synonyms
- (lower): bottom, lower
- (beneath the Earth's surface): subsurface, subterranean
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
nether (comparative more nether, superlative most nether)
- Down; downward.
- Low; low down.
Etymology 2
Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.
Alternative forms
- nither
Verb
nether (third-person singular simple present nethers, present participle nethering, simple past and past participle nethered)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Derived terms
- nethering
Noun
nether (plural nethers)
- (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
- (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
Anagrams
- ethren, threne
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Etymology
From Middle English nethere, from Old English niþera.
Adjective
nether
- lower
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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