'Infernal' definitions:
Definition of 'infernal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characteristic of or resembling Hell; "infernal noise"; "infernal punishment"
adjective
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" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]
adjective
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"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
adjective
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire; "infernal heat"
adjective
Being of the underworld; "infernal regions" [ant: supernal]
noun
An inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
Definition of 'Infernal'
From: GCIDE
- Infernal \In*fer"nal\, a. [F. infernal, L. infernalis, fr. infernus that which lies beneath, the lower. See Inferior.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. --Garth. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Infernal'
From: GCIDE
- Infernal \In*fer"nal\, n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infernal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- plutonian,
- Plutonic,
- plutonic,
- purgatorial,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- sinister,
- slavering,
- straight-out,
- stygian,
- Stygian,
- subhuman,
- sulfurous,
- Tartarean,
- thoroughgoing,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- underworld,
- ungodly,
- unhuman,
- vicious,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- wolfish