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adj
Of, being, or pertaining to a devil or the Devil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelean, demonic, fiendish, satanic, unholy, cacodaemoniacal, daemonical, demoniac, demoniacal, demonical, demonish, demonlike, demonly, diabolic, diabolical, fallen angelic, fiendlike, satanical
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Having qualities traditionally attributed to devils.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Having qualities traditionally attributed to devils.
Wicked; evil; cruel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, figuratively
Synonyms: inhuman, maleficent, baleful, wicked, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, demonic, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, fell, incessive, inclement, inhumane, malicious, merciless, nasty, nonhumane, pitiless, remorseless, rotten, ruthless, sadistic, savage, spiteful, truculent, unbenevolent, unbenign, unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, evil, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, naughty, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English diabolik, from Middle French diabolique, from Late Latin diabolicus, from Ancient Greek διαβολικός (diabolikós, “devilish”), from διάβολος (diábolos, “devil”). First attested in 1350–1400.
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
