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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.

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  1. a. 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.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.
  3. n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.
  4. adj. characteristic of or resembling Hell
  5. adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
  6. adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers
  7. adj. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
  8. adj. being of the underworld
  9. n. an inhabitant of Hell
  10. j:100 n. an inhabitant of Hell a. characteristic of or resembling Hell a. of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire