Infernal
adjective
Something that is very annoying or irritating.
I can't stand this infernal noise.
Often appears as...
- infernal noise
- infernal heat
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Colloquial
adjective
Relating to hell or the underworld.
He was sent into the infernal depths of the underworld.
Often appears as...
- infernal depths
- infernal damnation
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Disapproving
Literary
adjective
Characteristic of hell or the underworld, especially in being very hot.
The desert had an almost infernal heat.
Often appears as...
- infernal heat
- infernal fire
adjective
Something that is very annoying or irritating.
I can't stand this infernal noise.
Often appears as...
- infernal noise
- infernal heat
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
Relating to hell or the underworld.
He was sent into the infernal depths of the underworld.
Often appears as...
- infernal depths
- infernal damnation
Usage tips
Disapproving
Literary
adjective
Characteristic of hell or the underworld, especially in being very hot.
The desert had an almost infernal heat.
Often appears as...
- infernal heat
- infernal fire
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Common in spoken language when expressing frustration or annoyance in everyday situations.
My laptop is making that infernal beeping again!
Pro Tip 2/3Hyperbolic Expression
Used for emphasis, not to be taken literally; doesn't actually relate to hell.
This infernal car won't start on cold mornings!
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotations
Implies a negative and often unbearable experience or sensation.
Can someone shut off that infernal alarm?
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Common in spoken language when expressing frustration or annoyance in everyday situations.
My laptop is making that infernal beeping again!
Pro Tip 2/3Hyperbolic Expression
Used for emphasis, not to be taken literally; doesn't actually relate to hell.
This infernal car won't start on cold mornings!
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotations
Implies a negative and often unbearable experience or sensation.
Can someone shut off that infernal alarm?
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Common in spoken language when expressing frustration or annoyance in everyday situations.
My laptop is making that infernal beeping again!
Pro Tip 2/3Hyperbolic Expression
Used for emphasis, not to be taken literally; doesn't actually relate to hell.
This infernal car won't start on cold mornings!
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotations
Implies a negative and often unbearable experience or sensation.
Can someone shut off that infernal alarm?
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How batteries work -...
In that moment, you may feel more like throwing your battery across the room than singing its praises, but batteries are a triumph of science. They allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables.
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Advocating for gender...
infernal well more than 15 million women and girls dead thus far and an even greater number living with the virus if anyone understands the past present and future of HIV and AIDS its women and yet you have an advisory council of Notables
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Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
this little pen here drinking in there are CDs as they need to sorry about my gear hello infernal you'd like to know what go away birds are hmm I've just found some lipid tracks underneath my vehicle which is this is the last
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How India could pull off...
and home to a dozen coal power plants and India's largest open-pit coal mine. There it is, a literal hellscape, complete with infernal fires that burn 24/7. But, in Korba, coal is life. Most people I talked to accepted
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Mexican Witchcraft PIPE...
Zebub infernal spirits at this moment I ask for your presence and intervention depending on the work to be done one or another magic is used by meeting if there is a sentimental problem then red magic is used if there
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The dust bunnies that...
Consider the spot where you’re sitting. Travel backwards in time and it might’ve been submerged at the bottom of a shallow sea, buried under miles of rock, or floating through a molten, infernal landscape.
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Laws that choke...
you would find young people together singing the songs of the day, or the old songs. Today, you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left," Sousa said.
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Venus 101 PIPE National...
than any other planet or star in the night sky. While more than 40 unmanned space craft have visited this infernal world, Venus, so illuminated in the darkness of space, still has much to reveal.
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Earth the Biography:...
driving the climate and controlling the destiny of life itself but four and a half billion years ago and our planet was born it was just a molten infernal
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The Power of Photography...
there were a number of us setting up this infernal machine to try to get a picture and so we really didn't know exactly what was going to happen but
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How batteries work -...
In that moment, you may feel more like throwing your battery across the room than singing its praises, but batteries are a triumph of science. They allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables.
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Advocating for gender...
infernal well more than 15 million women and girls dead thus far and an even greater number living with the virus if anyone understands the past present and future of HIV and AIDS its women and yet you have an advisory council of Notables
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Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
this little pen here drinking in there are CDs as they need to sorry about my gear hello infernal you'd like to know what go away birds are hmm I've just found some lipid tracks underneath my vehicle which is this is the last
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How India could pull off...
and home to a dozen coal power plants and India's largest open-pit coal mine. There it is, a literal hellscape, complete with infernal fires that burn 24/7. But, in Korba, coal is life. Most people I talked to accepted
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Mexican Witchcraft PIPE...
Zebub infernal spirits at this moment I ask for your presence and intervention depending on the work to be done one or another magic is used by meeting if there is a sentimental problem then red magic is used if there
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The dust bunnies that...
Consider the spot where you’re sitting. Travel backwards in time and it might’ve been submerged at the bottom of a shallow sea, buried under miles of rock, or floating through a molten, infernal landscape.
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Laws that choke...
you would find young people together singing the songs of the day, or the old songs. Today, you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left," Sousa said.
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Venus 101 PIPE National...
than any other planet or star in the night sky. While more than 40 unmanned space craft have visited this infernal world, Venus, so illuminated in the darkness of space, still has much to reveal.
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Earth the Biography:...
driving the climate and controlling the destiny of life itself but four and a half billion years ago and our planet was born it was just a molten infernal
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The Power of Photography...
there were a number of us setting up this infernal machine to try to get a picture and so we really didn't know exactly what was going to happen but
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish.
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Julian Baggini
British Author
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
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Hugo Chavez
Statesman
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
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Willa Cather
American Author
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
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Karl Liebknecht
German Politician
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish.
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Julian Baggini
British Author
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
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Hugo Chavez
Statesman
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
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Willa Cather
American Author
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
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Karl Liebknecht
German Politician
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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