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inferno
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun inferno has 3 senses
- inferno(n = noun.location) hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits - any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits" is a kind of part, region
- inferno(n = noun.event) conflagration - a very intense and uncontrolled fire; Array is a kind of fire
- inferno(n = noun.cognition) hell, infernal region, nether region, perdition, pit - (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions" is a kind of fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place
Derived form adjective infernal1
has particulars: wildfire
Derived form adjective infernal4
has particulars: gehenna, tartarus, hellfire, red region
Derived form adjective infernal1
CIDE DICTIONARY
inferno, n. [It. See Infernal.].
- The infernal regions; hell. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- A raging fire. [PJC]"At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater]." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inferno, n. (pl. -os)
1 a raging fire.
2 a scene of horror or distress.
3 hell, esp. with ref. to Dante's Divine Comedy.
1 a raging fire.
2 a scene of horror or distress.
3 hell, esp. with ref. to Dante's Divine Comedy.
Etymology
It. f. LL infernus (as INFERNAL)
THESAURUS
inferno
Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, Naraka, Pandemonium, Sheol, Tophet, Torrid Zone, abyss, avichi, blazes, conflagration, equator, furnace, hades, hell, holocaust, infernal regions, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, netherworld, oven, perdition, pit, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, steam bath, subtropics, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, tropics, underworldROGET THESAURUS
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Hell
N hell, bottomless pit, place of torment, habitation of fallen angels, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel, jahannan, sheol, hell fire, everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation, lake of fire and brimstone, fire that is never quenched, worm that never dies, purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus, infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto, Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus, Tophet, hellish, infernal, stygian, dies irae dies illa, the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night.
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