Definition of infernal
1 : of or relating to a nether world of the dead
2a : of or relating to hellb : hellish, diabolical
3 : damnable an infernal nuisance
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the infernal regions of the dead
Stop making that infernal racket!
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Orpheus is a singer who can’t provide for Eurydice, and Hadestown is not so much the underworld as a kind of infernal factory, a place that guarantees money and security, but at the expense of freedom.
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Even to a modern secular viewer unencumbered by thoughts of her fate at the Last Judgment, his lively conceptions of the infernal remain more captivating than any paradise.
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The complexity of a man whose convivial manner concealed a vein of darkness was irresistible to Fiennes, an actor defined by his ability to tap into the infernal recesses of human nature.
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What prompted this seemingly fine upstanding lawyer, newspaper editor and occasional senate candidate to come up with his infernal device?
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For all his success, Wallace's prose features many qualities that repel readers: those infernal footnotes, an inhuman vocabulary, and a hyper self-awareness that results in layer upon layer of irony and meta-analyses.
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There was another kind of recurrent query Peter wouldn't brush aside either, as many another harried editor quite pardonably might: Why on earth did The Atlantic publish so much of that infernal modern poetry?
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Origin and Etymology of infernal
Middle English, from Anglo-French enfernal, from Late Latin infernalis, from infernus hell, from Latin, lower, from inferus
First Known Use: 14th century
INFERNAL Defined for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to hell
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: very bad or unpleasant
INFERNAL Defined for Kids
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1 : very bad or unpleasant Stop that infernal noise!
2 : of or relating to hell
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