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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Acheron or the infernal regions; dark; gloomy: as, Acherontic mists.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

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  • adjective dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades

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  • JM is looking on the acherontic side

    March 5, 2009

  • JM doesn't want to know about the acherontic side of life - he just wants to remain in the dark.

    October 5, 2010