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adj. - Dark and dismal as of the rivers in Hades.

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Usage examples (3)
  • It was a great pity I had not been more circumspect, for the boy was already too deeply steeped in those Acherontic waters.
  • Acherontic cave, he very cunningly appropriated his torch; and it was not until the matter became serious, that he could be induced to restore it.
  • Jude was too much affected to go on talking at first; she, too, was now such a mere cluster of nerves that all initiatory power seemed to have left her, and they proceeded...
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