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adj
Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hellish, helly, stygian
Antonyms: celestial, heavenly
adj
Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: fiery
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Stygian, gloomy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: cimmerian, dusky, tenebrous, blear, caliginous, crepuscular, dark, darksome, darkling, dim, dimpsy, dingy, dull, fuliginous, gloomy, infernal, leaden, lightless, mirksome, murky, murksome, obscure, shady, somber, sombrous, stygian, sunless, swarthy, tenebrose, twilightish, umbrageous, unilluminated
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Diabolical or fiendish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Very annoying; damned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: blessed, bloody, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blimming, blinking, blooming, confounded, consarned, cotton-picking, cowson, cursed, dadburn, dadgum, dagnabbed, damblasted, damn, damnable, damned, dang, danged, darn, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, dratted, effing, ever-loving, fecking, flaming, flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, fudging, fugging, furshlugginer, jiggered, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, goddarned, godforsaken, goldurn, gormed, goshdarn, goshdarned, hecking, holy, infernal, living, mollyfogging, motherfucking, pissing, plain, precious, raasclaat, ruddy, sniggered, sodding, stinking
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An inhabitant of the infernal regions, a demon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
being of the underworld
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: supernal
adjective
characteristic of or resembling Hell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective
of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
expletives used informally as intensifiers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic, unholy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an inhabitant of Hell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
History
From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno + -al.
Across languages
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
