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Infernal Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Infernal? [n] an inhabitant of hell; "his roar made the infernals quake" [adj] expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "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 (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [adj] extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [adj] being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions" [adj] characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal heat and noise" [adj] relating to or inhabiting hell; "his infernal majesty"; "infernal fires"; "infernal punishments" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Infernal: blame \| blamed \| blasted \| blessed \| chthonian \| chthonic \| cursed \| curst \| damn \| damned \| darned \| demonic \| deuced \| diabolic \| diabolical \| everlasting \| evil \| fiendish \| goddam \| goddamn \| goddamned \| Hadean \| hellish \| lower \| nether \| Plutonian \| satanic \| Stygian \| Tartarean \| unholy \| wicked Related Terms \| Find terms related to Infernal: absolute \| Acherontic \| animal \| anthropophagous \| atrocious \| barbaric \| barbarous \| beastly \| bestial \| blamed \| blasted \| blessed \| bloodthirsty \| bloody \| bloody-minded \| brutal \| brutalized \| brute \| brutish \| cannibalistic \| chthonian \| chthonic \| cimmerian \| confounded \| cruel \| cruel-hearted \| cursed \| cussed \| damnable \| damned \| demoniac \| demoniacal \| demonic \| demonical \| devilish \| diabolic \| diabolical \| dire \| downright \| Draconian \| dreadful \| evil \| execrable \| fell \| feral \| ferocious \| fiendish \| fiendlike \| fierce \| flagitious \| ghoulish \| Hadean \| heinous \| hellborn \| hellish \| inhuman \| inhumane \| iniquitous \| Lethean \| maleficent \| malevolent \| malicious \| Mephistophelian \| murderous \| nether \| out-and-out \| outright \| pandemoniac \| pandemonic \| Plutonian \| Plutonic \| purgatorial \| ruthless \| sadistic \| sanguinary \| sanguineous \| satanic \| savage \| sharkish \| sinister \| slavering \| straight-out \| Stygian \| subhuman \| sulfurous \| Tartarean \| thoroughgoing \| truculent \| unchristian \| uncivilized \| underworld \| ungodly \| unhuman \| vicious \| villainous \| wicked \| wolfish See Also \| dead person \| dead soul \| deceased \| deceased person \| decedent \| departed Infernal In Webster's Dictionary \Infer"nal\, a. [F. infernal, L. infernalis, fr. infernus that which lies beneath, the lower. See {Inferior}.] 1. 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. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. --Garth. 2. Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct. The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings. --Addison. {Infernal machine}, a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property. {Infernal stone} (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash. Syn: Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical; satanic; fiendish; malicious. \Infer"nal\, n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] --Drayton.

Infernal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Infernal?

[n] an inhabitant of hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
[adj] expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "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 (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
[adj] extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
[adj] being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"
[adj] characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal heat and noise"
[adj] relating to or inhabiting hell; "his infernal majesty"; "infernal fires"; "infernal punishments"

Infernal In Webster's Dictionary

\In*fer"nal\, a. [F. infernal, L. infernalis, fr.
infernus that which lies beneath, the lower. See {Inferior}.]
1. 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.

         The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. --Garth.

2. Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell;
   suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants
   of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or
   conduct.

         The instruments or abettors in such infernal
         dealings.                             --Addison.

{Infernal machine}, a machine or apparatus maliciously
   designed to explode, and destroy life or property.

{Infernal stone} (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly
   so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash.

Syn: Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical;
     satanic; fiendish; malicious.


\In*fer"nal\, n.
An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place
itself. [Obs.] --Drayton.

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