definición y significado de infernal

Definición

infernal (adj.)

1.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 goddamn..."

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" ...

3.being of the underworld"infernal regions"

4.characteristic of or resembling Hell"infernal noise" "infernal punishment"

5.relating to or inhabiting hell"his infernal majesty" "infernal fires" "infernal punishments"

6.of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire"infernal heat"

infernal (n.)

1.an inhabitant of Hell"his roar made the infernals quake"

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Merriam Webster

InfernalIn*fer"nal (?), a. [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.

InfernalIn*fer"nal, n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] Drayton.

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