Infernal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infernal \In*fer"nal\, n.
     An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place
     itself. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Infernal \In*fer"nal\, a. [F. infernal, L. infernalis, fr.
     infernus that which lies beneath, the lower. See {Inferior}.]
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     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.
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              The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. --Garth.
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     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.
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              The instruments or abettors in such infernal
              dealings.                             --Addison.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infernal
       adj 1: characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal heat and
              noise"
       2: 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}, {satanic}, {unholy}]
       3: 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" [syn:
          {blasted}, {blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned},
           {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}]
       4: relating to or inhabiting hell; "his infernal majesty";
          "infernal fires"; "infernal punishments"
       5: being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions" [ant:
           {supernal}]
       n : an inhabitant of hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "infernal":
     Acherontic, Draconian, Hadean, Lethean, Mephistophelian, Plutonian,
     Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, absolute, 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, dreadful, evil, execrable, fell,
     feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious,
     ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, inhuman, inhumane,
     iniquitous, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, 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, thoroughgoing, truculent,
     unchristian, uncivilized, underworld, ungodly, unhuman, vicious,
     villainous, wicked, wolfish