Infernal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to a lower world of the dead.
  • adj. Of or relating to hell: infernal punishments; infernal powers.
  • adj. Fiendish; diabolical: infernal instruments of war.
  • adj. Abominable; awful: the infernal racket of the jackhammers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
  • adj. Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
  • adj. Stygian, gloomy.
  • adj. Diabolical or fiendish.
  • adj. Very annoying; damned.
  • n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical.
  • n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the lower regions, or regions of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
  • Pertaining to or resembling hell; inhabiting hell; suitable or appropriate to hell or its inhabitants; hellish; fiendish; diabolical: as, infernal cruelty.
  • Devilish, satanic, fiendlike, nefarious.
  • n. An inhabitant of hell or of the lower regions.
  • n. A person or thing of an infernal character in any sense, or of supposed infernal appearance: specifically applied to a fire-ship, torpedo, infernal machine, or the like.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
  • n. an inhabitant of Hell
  • adj. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
  • adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers
  • adj. being of the underworld
  • adj. characteristic of or resembling Hell
  • Equivalent
    evil    cursed    curst    chthonian    hadean    stygian    tartarean    Plutonian    nether    chthonic   
    Antonym
    heavenly   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stygian    malicious    diabolical    fiendish    tartarean    devilish    hellish    satanic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    colonel    diurnal    eternal    external    fraternal    internal    journal    kernel    maternal    nocturnal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    horrid    awful    diabolical    abominable    damn    hellish    murderous    celestial    nasty    infamous