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Definition of infernal in English: infernaladjective ɪnˈfəːn(ə)lɪnˈfərnl 1Relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld. 阴间的，地狱的 阴间地带。 the infernal heat of the forge 炼铁炉的地狱般热度。 Example sentencesExamples - He held the nation captive and forced us to confront that which we fear most: the infernal torments of Hell itself.
- Similarly, I've never found myself in a dark wood, about the middle point in my life, and been taken through the infernal, purgatorial, and celestial realms by various and sundry guides.
- He then begins a campaign of terror to ensure that his beloved gets the best parts before spiriting her away to his subterranean lair to be his infernal bride.
- There were splashes of flash bulbs, and infernal heat, and the button eyes of Ethel Kennedy turned to cinders.
- Staggering home under the appalled stares of passers-by, a bloodied Mehmet walks a gauntlet of seething furnaces, grinding pistons and an incessant, infernal hammering.
- Scary images flash on the screen as Gene begins his incantations to the infernal minions of hell.
- With blackness all around it, these burning colours made Loch Shiel look like some lake of the infernal regions, an otherworldly vision, intense and remarkably beautiful.
- Cuming claimed that ‘the forthcoming end of the world would be hastened by the construction of underground railways burrowing into the infernal regions and thereby disturbing the devil’.
- Mapping the infernal regions of Hell and Purgatory with a geographer's precision, Botticelli takes the viewer on a journey of visceral, blood-curdling horror.
- It is rather satisfying to imagine ‘neighbours from hell’ being confronted by an actual denizen of the infernal pits.
- His conception of the infernal regions had been actively debated throughout the sixteenth century, two opposed views having been set forth by commentators on Dante's text.
- So when the pair decide to create their own hell in Manhattan, and Nicky is sent to recapture them, nobody back home in the infernal regions holds out much hope.
- Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
- It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
- Like the first film, the second is framed by opening titles describing the Buddhist conception of the most infernal level of hell, a timeless space in which one's identity and conscience no longer has any meaning.
Synonyms of hell, hellish, lower, nether, subterranean, underworld Hadean, Plutonic, Plutonian, Stygian, Styxian, Tartarean, Acherontic, Avernal rare chthonic, helly 2informal attributive Irritating and tiresome (used for emphasis) 〈非正式〉 用作强调恼人的，烦人的，讨厌的 you're an infernal nuisance 你是个讨厌鬼。 Example sentencesExamples - An oven cooks glass at an infernal heat, and once every second, spits a 420 gram drop of melted glass onto a mold.
- Jerry wonders how it is that he was in this nice, bright-eyed girl-across-the-hallway's apartment this afternoon and why now, at this infernal moment, he's here, writing.
- Whenever I even say hello they go all red like damn raspberries and start their infernal giggling.
- So as I begin to lose all confidence that this blasted infernal film will ever be made, I decide I need help.
- I gave my wardrobe one final shove so that it was against the wall under the stairs that led into the room, darkly insulting whoever made the infernal contraption so heavy.
- From a civilian's point of view, it was an infernal nuisance.
- It's most annoying that you claim to be a friend of his, because I'd like to toast you for your infernal effrontery in bringing that damned amulet here.
- It is all an infernal nuisance… it seems to me the time has arrived to set about being a man of letters.
- No prizes for guessing what has caused this temporary regression into childhood… this damned infernal blog!
Synonyms damned, damn, damnable, wretched, accursed, rotten, horrible annoying, irritating, infuriating, exasperating informal flaming, blasted, blessed, dratted, cussed, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, aggravating British informal blinking, bloody, bleeding, blooming, blimming, flipping, effing, chuffing Australian/New Zealand informal plurry British informal, dated bally, ruddy, deuced, dashed, cursed vulgar slang frigging, fucking
Derivativesadverb ɪnˈfəːnəli My site is taking an infernally long time to load. Example sentencesExamples - I generally try to avoid pitch-dark, infernally hot enclosures, but now that Brown is my new best friend I find his preamble so avuncular and sweet that I almost consider it.
- Not only are they infernally cute and little (barely more than two and a half metres long), but they have interchangeable exterior panels, so I could change my car's colour whenever my mood shifted.
- Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
- My online friends also give me things to do: Help with research, nonsense games to play, and lately, an infernally frustrating quiz from the marketers of the Da Vinci Code.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, from Christian Latin infernalis, from Latin infernus 'below, underground', used by Christians to mean 'hell', on the pattern of inferni (masculine plural) 'the shades' and inferna (neuter plural) 'the lower regions'. Rhymescolonel, diurnal, eternal, external, fraternal, internal, journal, kernel, maternal, nocturnal, paternal, supernal, vernal Definition of infernal in US English: infernaladjectiveinˈfərnlɪnˈfərnl 1Relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld. 阴间的，地狱的 阴间地带。 the infernal heat of the forge 炼铁炉的地狱般热度。 Example sentencesExamples - He then begins a campaign of terror to ensure that his beloved gets the best parts before spiriting her away to his subterranean lair to be his infernal bride.
- It is rather satisfying to imagine ‘neighbours from hell’ being confronted by an actual denizen of the infernal pits.
- His conception of the infernal regions had been actively debated throughout the sixteenth century, two opposed views having been set forth by commentators on Dante's text.
- So when the pair decide to create their own hell in Manhattan, and Nicky is sent to recapture them, nobody back home in the infernal regions holds out much hope.
- It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
- With blackness all around it, these burning colours made Loch Shiel look like some lake of the infernal regions, an otherworldly vision, intense and remarkably beautiful.
- Scary images flash on the screen as Gene begins his incantations to the infernal minions of hell.
- He held the nation captive and forced us to confront that which we fear most: the infernal torments of Hell itself.
- Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
- Cuming claimed that ‘the forthcoming end of the world would be hastened by the construction of underground railways burrowing into the infernal regions and thereby disturbing the devil’.
- There were splashes of flash bulbs, and infernal heat, and the button eyes of Ethel Kennedy turned to cinders.
- Like the first film, the second is framed by opening titles describing the Buddhist conception of the most infernal level of hell, a timeless space in which one's identity and conscience no longer has any meaning.
- Staggering home under the appalled stares of passers-by, a bloodied Mehmet walks a gauntlet of seething furnaces, grinding pistons and an incessant, infernal hammering.
- Mapping the infernal regions of Hell and Purgatory with a geographer's precision, Botticelli takes the viewer on a journey of visceral, blood-curdling horror.
- Similarly, I've never found myself in a dark wood, about the middle point in my life, and been taken through the infernal, purgatorial, and celestial realms by various and sundry guides.
Synonyms of hell, hellish, lower, nether, subterranean, underworld 2informal attributive Irritating and tiresome (used for emphasis) 〈非正式〉 用作强调恼人的，烦人的，讨厌的 you're an infernal nuisance 你是个讨厌鬼。 Example sentencesExamples - So as I begin to lose all confidence that this blasted infernal film will ever be made, I decide I need help.
- It is all an infernal nuisance… it seems to me the time has arrived to set about being a man of letters.
- An oven cooks glass at an infernal heat, and once every second, spits a 420 gram drop of melted glass onto a mold.
- Whenever I even say hello they go all red like damn raspberries and start their infernal giggling.
- No prizes for guessing what has caused this temporary regression into childhood… this damned infernal blog!
- I gave my wardrobe one final shove so that it was against the wall under the stairs that led into the room, darkly insulting whoever made the infernal contraption so heavy.
- Jerry wonders how it is that he was in this nice, bright-eyed girl-across-the-hallway's apartment this afternoon and why now, at this infernal moment, he's here, writing.
- It's most annoying that you claim to be a friend of his, because I'd like to toast you for your infernal effrontery in bringing that damned amulet here.
- From a civilian's point of view, it was an infernal nuisance.
Synonyms damned, damn, damnable, wretched, accursed, rotten, horrible
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, from Christian Latin infernalis, from Latin infernus ‘below, underground’, used by Christians to mean ‘hell’, on the pattern of inferni (masculine plural) ‘the shades’ and inferna (neuter plural) ‘the lower regions’. |