nnoun.personan inhabitant of HellExamples:- his roar made the infernals quake
Hypernyms:dead person dead soul deceased deceased person decedent departed
Inherited Hypernyms:infernaldead personpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:infernaldead personpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
adjadj.pertcharacteristic of or resembling HellExamples:- infernal noise
- infernal punishment
Derivationally Related Form:infernoInferno
Pertainyms:inferno
Inherited Hypernyms:infernal
adj satadj.allextremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hellSynset:demonic diabolic diabolical fiendish hellish satanic unholy
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:good
Derivationally Related Form:devilunholinessdemon
Inherited Hypernyms:demonic
Similar to:evil
adj satadj.allexpletives used informally as intensifiersSynset:blame blamed blasted blessed damn damned darned deuced goddam goddamn goddamned
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:blessed
Derivationally Related Form:damned
Inherited Hypernyms:blasted
Similar to:cursed curst
adjadj.pertof or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fireDerivationally Related Form:inferno
Pertainyms:inferno
Inherited Hypernyms:infernal
adjadj.allbeing of the underworldAntonyms:supernal
Inherited Hypernyms:infernal
Similar to:chthonian chthonic nether Hadean Plutonian Tartarean Stygian
See also:evil