Infernal

Word INFERNAL
Character 8
Hyphenation in fer nal
Pronunciations /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)nəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Infernal"

What do we mean by infernal?

Of or relating to a lower world of the dead. adjective

Of or relating to hell. adjective

Fiendish; diabolical. adjective

Abominable; awful. adjective

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.

An inhabitant of hell or of the lower regions. noun

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. noun

An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. noun

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. adjective

Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical. adjective

A machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property. adjective

(lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash. adjective

Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish. adjective

Of or relating to a fire or inferno. adjective

Stygian, gloomy. adjective

Diabolical or fiendish. adjective

Very annoying; damned. adjective

An inhabitant of the infernal regions.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Infernal

The word "infernal" in example sentences

His experience and training with the Mounted Police made it difficult for him to accept with equal mind what he called the infernal cheek of a bunch of Indians. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)

Her books contain infernal hints, Christological echoes, centaurs, phoenixes, house-elves and Moaning Myrtle — a postmodern superfluity of myth and invention into which she dips and dips and keeps on dipping, because it will never be exhausted, and it will never quite add up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps infernal is the perfect word; perhaps, after all, we are living in a species of Hell. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)

Turreau proposed a series of columns, which became known as the infernal or hell columns, to sweep through the area. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

"Next, a little box containing a sort of stone known as infernal stone. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Pluto was therefore called the infernal Jupiter, and oblations were made to him by the living, for the souls of their friends departed. ❋ Charles K. Dillaway (N/A)

It must be called infernal, because slavery is a crime against humanity -- so heinous in its spirit, and so barbarous in its manifestations, that none but a devil incarnate, or otherwise, could have been the one to suggest it. ❋ Unknown (1891)

And yet still more must it be called infernal because the Fugitive Slave Bill, which was in great activity at this time, had provisions in it bribing the courts of justice against the weak and defenseless fugitive, but in favor of his avaricious claimant, on whose side already existed the American sword and the American purse. ❋ Unknown (1891)

And yet still more must it be called infernal because the Fugitive Slave Law was enacted by a civilized Christian government, which gave to a white man the right to prove his ownership in a horse, a cow, or a bale of cotton, at the same time that it denied a black man the right to prove his own personal freedom, or that of his wife and children. ❋ Unknown (1891)

He did not like to hear competition called infernal; he had always supposed it was something sacred; but he approved of what Colonel Woodburn said of the Standard Oil Company; it was all true; the Standard Oil has squeezed Dryfoos once, and made him sell it a lot of oil-wells by putting down the price of oil so low in that region that he lost money on every barrel he pumped. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

This was all the work of a so-called infernal machine -- a small barrel filled with powder and quicksilver -- which had been placed in ❋ Unknown (1843)

We learned a few hours afterwards that in going to the opera, the first consul had narrowly escaped being destroyed by the explosion of what has been called the infernal machine. ❋ Necker, Anne L G (1821)

There were assembled at the table the governor of these (not improperly called infernal) regions; the lieutenant-governor, vulgarly named the first turnkey; Miss Matthews, Mr. Booth, Mr. Robinson the gambler, several other prisoners of both sexes, and one Murphy, an attorney. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)

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