infernal

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Today, you hear these infernal machines going night and day.

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Quick take

an inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of infernal gathered in one view.

noun

an inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"

adjective

characteristic of or resembling Hell; "infernal noise"; "infernal punishment"

adjective

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"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for infernal.

noun

an inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"

adjective

characteristic of or resembling Hell; "infernal noise"; "infernal punishment"

adjective

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 goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

adjective

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

adjective

being of the underworld; "infernal regions"

Example sentences

Today, you hear these infernal machines going night and day.

If only I could plug more USB memory sticks into this infernal machine!

Me, and many others taped up newspapers to block the infernal glaring light.

Tech company chooses name that allows a literal eye of evil to spy on any land and corrupt good men from the comfort of its infernal lair.

I don't blame you though because, assuming your a programmer, you've taken on the too-literal qualities of that infernal machine you spend all day trying to please.

One of my labmates from grad school did colloidal quantum dot synthesis, and he regularly cursed Ostwald and his infernal ripening.

Eliminating infernal tariffs and trade barriers were of course the original animating rationale, but at root that's just one example of a collective action problem.

Every e-mail system that I know of allows you to turn off incoming mail notifications: you can get rid of the infernal beep, the annoying pop-up message and even the little envelope icon.