diabolic
/ˌdʌɪəˈbɒlɪk
/adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the Devil: the darkness of a diabolic world...
- We are shown and recognize these limits in the Dindenault episode, where Panurge as the Devil commits the ultimate diabolic act and violates standards of human dignity and human morality.
- Thus he is the very devil of the Cartesian universe, exploiting his own diabolic extrapolation of the cogito.
- Another disappointment was the Morris dance; when the Dog played the fiddle, a red light shone on the cast, and the diabolic music bent and distorted them into odd positions.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French diabolique or ecclesiastical Latin diabolicus, from diabolus 'devil'.
Rhymes
- all there
- all the same
- all the time
- all the way
- all (the way) down (or along) the line
- (all) the world over
- all the ——
- all-thing
- all things considered
- all-through
- all-ticket
- all-time
- all-timer
- all together
- all told
- all too ——
- all to the good
- allude
- allumette
- allumeuse
- allumine
- all-up
- all-up weight
- allure
- allurement