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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.
noun
1.
An inhabitant of Hell.



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"Infernal" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered the baron; "but to whom shall I send? My allies are at York, where I should have also been but for this infernal enterprise." ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various
... the three: Clytemnestra is the fallen unrestored; Helen is the fallen restored; Penelope is the unfallen, who keeps a home for her absent husband during twenty years. The tragic, the mediated, the pure; or, to take a later analogy, the infernal, the purgatorial, the paradisaical; such are the three typical female characters of Homer, ranging from guilt, through repentance, to innocence. In this framework lies quite all possible characterization. Naturally Agamemnon shows a bitter vein of misogyny, ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider
... Here, too, those who in times past have persecuted witches, will find justification for their cruelties. The actors in one of the blackest pages in human history, claim Scripture authority for their infernal deeds. Far into the eighteenth century in England, the clergy dragged innocent women into the courts as witches, and learned judges pronounced on them the sentence of torture and death. The chapter on witchcraft in Lecky's History of Rationalism, contains the most heartrending facts in ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... substances are mixed together the result is a compound truly infernal in its potentialities for mischief. It is not an explosive but if set on fire it burns with an intensity that is positively appalling. Nothing will put it out; no quantity of water has any effect upon the raging flames ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... evil and misfortune, security in the stead of anxiety, were as fatal to Esther as her past wretchedness would have been to her young companions. Planted in corruption, she had grown up in it. That infernal home still had a hold on her, in spite of the commands of a despotic will. What she loathed was life to her, what she loved ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac


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