Word of the Day: Infernal

Word of the Day: 
Infernal

PRONUNCIATION:  [in-fur-nl]
MEANING:
Adj: Of, relating to, or characteristic of hell or the underworld.

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 ETYMOLOGY: 1325–75; Middle English  < Late Latin infernālis,  equivalent to Latin infern ( us ) situated below, of the underworld + -ālis -al1
USAGE: Last summer, there was no escape from the infernal heat.

 SYNONYMS: accursed, blamed, blasted, chthonian, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, demonic, devilish, diabolical, execrable, fiendish, hellish, malevolent, malicious, monstrous, nether, satanic, subterranean, sulphurous, wicked

 ANTONYMS: heavenly, otherworldly