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Infernal   /ɪnfˈərnəl/   Listen
Infernal

adjective
1.
Characteristic of or resembling Hell.  "Infernal punishment"
2.
Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell.  Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic, unholy.  "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"
3.
Expletives used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned.  "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"
4.
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire.
5.
Being of the underworld.  Antonym: supernal.
noun
1.
An inhabitant of Hell.



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"Infernal" Quotes from Famous Books



... infernal (I am afraid I used a stronger word) old fool told me?" I exclaimed to Stephen. "He says that we must be prepared to state exactly when that other infernal old fool, Brother John, will turn up at Beza Town, and that if we don't we shall have our throats ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... in books that would have been sealed to even Jim's immediate forebears, rich in all possible mechanical appliances for the ease of life, speculated whether Reardon had, in the old days, been good for Jeff. Could he, with his infernal luck, have been good for any youth of Jeff's impetuous credulity? Mightn't Jeff have got the idea that life is an easy job? The colonel felt now that he had always distrusted Reardon's bluff bonhomie, ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... but one of the bullets from that infernal picket had passed through his body. The gallant creature had never winced nor weakened, but had gone while life was in him. One instant I was secure on the swiftest, most graceful horse in Massena's army. The next he lay upon his ...
— The Adventures of Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle
... were the questions that men asked one another, as both aristocrats and sansculottes paused in their bloody labours. It was close at hand. So close at hand that they could discern the tramp of marching feet. In the infernal din of that fight upon the stairs they had not caught the sound of this approach until now that the new-comers—whoever they might be—were at the very ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... 3. Oil of the infernal regions.—The water which has been employed in the preceding operation is in some districts conducted into large reservoirs called the infernal regions, where it is left for many days. During this period, any oil that might have remained mixed with the water separates and collects on the ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds


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