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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infernal \In*fer"nal\, adjective [F. infernal, L. infernalis, fr. infernus that which lies beneath, the lower. See {Inferior}.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infernal \In*fer"nal\, noun An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] --Drayton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infernal
adjective
1: characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal heat and noise"
2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: {demonic}, {diabolic}, {diabolical}, {fiendish}, {hellish}, {satanic}, {unholy}]
3: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted}, {blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned}, {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}]
4: relating to or inhabiting hell; "his infernal majesty"; "infernal fires"; "infernal punishments"
5: being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions" [ant: {supernal}]
noun: an inhabitant of hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "infernal": Acherontic, Draconian, Hadean, Lethean, Mephistophelian, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, absolute, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, blamed, blasted, blessed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chthonian, chthonic, cimmerian, confounded, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonical, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dire, downright, dreadful, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, murderous, nether, out-and-out, outright, pandemoniac, pandemonic, plutonian, plutonic, purgatorial, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, sinister, slavering, straight-out, stygian, subhuman, sulfurous, thoroughgoing, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, underworld, ungodly, unhuman, vicious, villainous, wicked, wolfish
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