 infernal |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] characteristic of or resembling hell | |
| Examples: | "infernal heat and noise" |
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| Related terms: | hell | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | |
| Synonyms: | satanic unholy fiendish hellish diabolic diabolical demonic | |
| Examples: | "something demonic in him" "fires lit up a diabolic scene" "a fiendish despot" "hellish torture" "infernal instruments of war" "satanic cruelty" "unholy grimaces" |
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| Related terms: | evil | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] expletives used informally as intensifiers | |
| Synonyms: | damned darned goddam goddamned damn blessed everlasting deuced goddamn blame blamed blasted | |
| Examples: | "he's a blasted idiot" "it's a blamed shame" "not a blessed dime" "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing" "he's a damn fool" "an infernal nuisance" |
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| Related terms: | cursed | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] being of a lower world of the dead | |
| Examples: | "infernal regions" |
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| Related terms: | supernal chthonian Stygian Hadean evil | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] relating to or inhabiting hell | |
| Examples: | "his infernal majesty" "infernal fires" "infernal punishments" |
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| Related terms: | Hell | |
| 6. | [ noun ] an inhabitant of hell | |
| Examples: | "his roar made the infernals quake" |
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| Related terms: | dead_person | |
| Similar spelling: |
infernally infer inoperable inferno inferior in_front inferential infertile inebriate inebriant in-person in_person inborn in_for inebriated inoperative infertility inferiority inebriation in_front_of in_force |
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