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English to English adjective
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characteristic of or resembling Hell |  | Example: infernal noise
infernal punishment
source: wordnet30
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of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire | | Example: infernal heat
source: wordnet30
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being of the underworld | | Example: infernal regions
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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expletives used informally as intensifiers | | Example: 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
an infernal nuisance
source: wordnet30 noun
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an inhabitant of Hell | | Example: his roar made the infernals quake
source: wordnet30
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An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. | | source: webster1913
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