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στυγν-ός , ή, όν,
A.hated, abhorred, of persons and things, Archil.80; “ἄτη” A.Pr.886 (anap.); “ὦ στυγνὲ δαῖμον” Id.Pers.472; “ὦ στυγνὸς αἰών” S.Ph.1348; “λῶβαι” Id.Aj.561, etc.: c. dat., hateful or hostile to one, A.Pers.286 (lyr.), S.El.918. Adv. Comp. “-οτέρως, ἔχειν πρός τινα” BGU1301.8 (ii/i B.C.).
II. gloomy, sullen, “πρόσωπον” A.Ag.639, E. Alc.777; “ὀφρύων νέφος” Id.Hipp.172 (anap.), cf. 290; “στυγνοὶ κλαίουσιν Ἔρωτες” Mosch.3.67; ὁρᾶν στυγνός, opp. φαιδρός, X.An.2.6.9, cf. 11, Hp.Mul.2.182, LXX Is.57.17, Arr.Epict.3.5.9 (Comp.), Aret.SD1.5; “νύξ” LXX Wi.17.5; οἱονεὶ πυρὸς εἰσπεσόντος εἰς ὕδωρ στυγνὸν σέλας ἐκπέμπουσα [λιγνύς] Adam.Vent.34; ς. διαγωγαὶ καὶ ἀναγνώσεις καὶ διηγήματα, opp. ἐρεθιστικὰ τῶν ἀφροδισίων, Sor.2.46; στυγνὸς μὲν εἴκων δῆλος εἶ sullenly, with an ill grace, S.OT673: neut. as Adv., “στυγνὸν οἰμώξας” Id.Ant.1226.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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