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.