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archidiabolical

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Of or relating to an archdevil.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, rare

Examples

  • 1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28, Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman.

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History

Etymology

From archi- + diabolical.