Thesaurus: infernal

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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. 1. 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. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. 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. The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings. Addison. Infernal machine, a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property. -- Infernal stone (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash. Syn. -- Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical; satanic; fiendish; malicious. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] Drayton.
11. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.[Obs.] Drayton.
12. 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