DIABOLICAL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Diabolical

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dˌaɪəbˈɑlɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Diabolical, Diabolic adj.

Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; befitting hell or satan; devilish; infernal; impious; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act; the diabolical expression on his face; fires lit up a diabolic scene. "Diabolic power." "The diabolical institution."

Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelian, mephistophelean.

Showing a wicked cunning or ingenuity; as, the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen.

Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelian, mephistophelean.

Extremely evil or cruel; atrocious; outrageously wicked; as, diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils; diabolical torturers taking pleasure in their craft.

Synonyms: demonic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, nefarious, satanic.

See images of 'Diabolical'

Etymology of 'Diabolical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Diabolical" Quotes from Famous Books

... presented itself to his view. Slowly rising from his bed, and putting on the fictitious nose, while he drew his white nightcap over his ghastly and livid brow, Tom thrust his face through the aperture, and uttered a diabolical cry; then sank down upon his unseen couch as noiselessly as he had arisen. The cry was like nothing human, and it was echoed by an involuntary scream from the lips of our ...

— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... tell her things, and keep the diabolical secret from poor Maude and from me," she returned, rather inconsistently. "I don't doubt you and your wife have exulted enough ...

— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... il faut bien mentir quelquefois quand on est eveque." "Man depicts himself in his gods," says Schiller. Hence the Naturgott, the deity of all ancient peoples, and with which every system began, allowed and approved of actions distinctly immoral, often diabolical. Belief became moralized only when the conscience of the community, and with it of the individual items, began aspiring to its golden age,—Perfection. "Dieu est le superlatif, dont le positif est l'homme," says Carl Vogt; meaning, that the popular idea of a numen is ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

... came away Shepton Mallet was shaken to its foundations by a tremendous and most diabolical sound, a prolonged lupine yell or yowl, as if a stupendous wolf, as big, say, as the Anglo-Bavarian brewery, had howled his loudest and longest. This infernal row, which makes Shepton seem like a town or ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... "There are diabolical effluvia in the storm, and in weather when the air stirs like the vapours from a furnace, rousing evil instincts and bringing about us the ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

More quotes...