Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: infernal
IPA transcription: [,ɪnf'ɝnəl]
Pronunciations of infernal
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: infernal
    Meaning: characteristic of or resembling Hell; "infernal noise"; "infernal punishment"
  • Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
    Meaning: 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"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: infernal
    Meaning: an inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
Usage examples
  • “Morgan, you are an infernal blackguard.
  • She now stood fair for his infernal purpose.
  • "You are a brute, an infernal brute, to treat a woman that way."
  • I recollected myself before I had disclosed the grotesque and infernal chimera that haunts me."
  • 'If you try to bribe me, you infernal little haberdasher, I'll have you off that horse and chuck you in the river.'
  • And even if I am an old hound I could run with the best of them if that infernal Yankee bullet had not taken me in the leg!"
  • Never in my life had I heard such an infernal din as the two brutes made, and to think it was all lost upon the hideous reptiles for whom the show was staged!
  • "What!" I roared, "Heru taken from the palace by a handful of men and none of you infernal rascals--none of you white-livered abortions lifted a hand to save her--curse on you a thousand times.
  • She asked Dickens if he had ever "read such infernal trash" as Mrs. Gore's; and exclaimed "Oh God! what a sermon we had here, last Sunday." Dickens and his two daughters--"who were decidedly in the way, as we agreed afterwards"--dined by invitation with the mother and daughter.
  • If, when those infernal finger-marks were on the white and breathless countenance of Alfred Lammle, Esquire, they denoted that he conceived the purpose of subduing his dear wife Mrs Alfred Lammle, by at once divesting her of any lingering reality or pretence of self-respect, the purpose would seem to have been presently executed.
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