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語源

From Middle French infernal, from Medieval Latin infernalis, from Latin īnfernus, from īnferum (“netherworld, underworld, hell”), equivalent to inferno +‎ -al.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)nəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈfɝnəl/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl

形容詞

infernal (comparative more infernal, superlative most infernal)

1. Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.

   Synonyms: hellish, helly, stygian; see also Thesaurus:infernal

   Antonyms: celestial, heavenly

   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 119:

     He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond.

2. (by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.

   Synonym: fiery

3. Stygian, gloomy.

   Synonyms: cimmerian, dusky, tenebrous; see also Thesaurus:dark

4. Diabolical or fiendish.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 34–36:

     Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
     Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
     The Mother of Mankind

   • 1711 December 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 8, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 244; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings

     The spelling has been modernized.

5. (as an expletive) Very annoying; damned.

   Synonyms: blessed, bloody; see also Thesaurus:damned

   • 1905, Bram Stoker, The Man:

     As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman, […]

   • 1982, Sharon Green, The Warrior Within, page 10:

     When are you ever going to learn to mind your own infernal business?

派生語

関連する語

• inferno

名詞

infernal (plural infernals)

1. An inhabitant of the infernal regions, a demon.

参照

“infernal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.