Satanic

3 definitions found

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

  Satanic \Sa*tan"ic\, Satanical \Sa*tan"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
     satanique, Gr. ?.]
     Of or pertaining to Satan; having the qualities of Satan;
     resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish;
     infernal. "Satanic strength." "Satanic host." --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Detest the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults
           over the character it has ruined.        --Dr. T.
                                                    Dwight.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Sa*tan"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
     {Sa*tan"ic*al*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  satanic
       adj 1: 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}, {unholy}]
       2: of or relating to Satan; "Satanic verses"

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

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "satanic":
     Draconian, Mephistophelian, Tartarean, abhorrent, abominable,
     amoral, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous,
     beastly, bestial, black, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded,
     brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, corrupt, cruel,
     cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, dark, demoniac, demoniacal,
     demonic, demonish, demonlike, depraved, despicable, devil-like,
     devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dire, evil, execrable, fell, feral,
     ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, godless, heinous,
     hellborn, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid,
     horrifying, immoral, impious, infernal, inhuman, inhumane,
     iniquitous, loathsome, monstrous, murderous, ogreish, perverse,
     perverted, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, saturnine,
     savage, serpentine, sharkish, sinister, slavering, subhuman,
     truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy,
     unhuman, unspeakable, unutterable, vicious, vile, wicked,
     wolfish