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infernal 音标拼音: [ɪnf'ɚnəl] a. 阴间的,恶魔的 阴间的,恶魔的 infernal adj 1: characteristic of or resembling Hell; " infernal noise"; " infernal punishment" 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" [ synonym: { demonic}, { diabolic}, { diabolical}, { fiendish}, { hellish}, { infernal}, { 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"; " an infernal nuisance" [ synonym: { blasted}, { blame}, { blamed}, { blessed}, { damn}, { damned}, { darned}, { deuced}, { goddam}, { goddamn}, { goddamned}, { infernal}] 4: of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire; " infernal heat" 5: being of the underworld; " infernal regions" [ ant: { supernal}] n 1: an inhabitant of Hell; " his roar made the infernals quake" Infernal \ In* fer" nal\, n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [ Obs.] -- Drayton. [ 1913 Webster]
Infernal \ In* fer" nal\, a. [ F. infernal, L. infernalis, fr. infernus that which lies beneath, the lower. See { Inferior}.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. -- Garth. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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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