Word Study
purgatorial
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective purgatorial has 2 senses
- purgatorial(a = adj.pert) purging, purifying - serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
- purgatorial(a = adj.pert) Array - of or resembling purgatory; "purgatorial fires" Derived forms noun purgatory2, noun purgatory1
THESAURUS
purgatorial
Acherontic, Lethean, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, chthonian, chthonic, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, devilish, expiatory, expurgatory, hellborn, hellish, infernal, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, pandemoniac, pandemonic, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, squaring, sulfurous
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