Dictionary Definition
infernal adj
1 characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal
heat and noise"
2 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, satanic, unholy]
3 expletives used informally as intensifiers;
"he's a blasted idiot"; "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"; "tired or his
everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned]
4 relating to or inhabiting hell; "his infernal
majesty"; "infernal fires"; "infernal punishments"
5 being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal
regions" [ant: supernal] n : an inhabitant of
hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /ɪnˈfɜː(r)nəl/ /In"f3:(r)n@l/
Adjective
Antonyms
Translations
Of or relating to hell, or the world of the
dead; hellish
- Finnish: helvetillinen
by extension: of or relating to a great fire or
inferno
stygian
diabolical or fiendish
- Finnish: pirullinen
UK, as an expletive: very annoying; damned
Translations to be checked
Spanish
Adjective
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Infernal is an adjective meaning "pertaining to
hell", but may also refer
to:
- Infernal (band), a Danish dance/club band
- Infernal (novel), a novel by F. Paul Wilson
- Infernal (album), a 1997 album from Swedish death metal band, Edge of Sanity
- Infernal (video game), video game by Playlogic International
See also
- Inferno (disambiguation)
- Dictionnaire Infernal, a 19th-century compendium of demonology
- The infernal names, as compiled by Anton LaVey
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Acherontic, Draconian, Hadean, Lethean, Mephistophelian,
Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, absolute, animal, anthropophagous,
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, blamed, blasted, blessed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chthonian, chthonic, cimmerian, confounded, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonical, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dire, downright, dreadful, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, murderous, nether, out-and-out, outright, pandemoniac, pandemonic, plutonian, plutonic, purgatorial, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, sinister, slavering, straight-out,
stygian, subhuman, sulfurous, thoroughgoing, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, underworld, ungodly, unhuman, vicious, villainous, wicked, wolfish