• adj.
    ⦿extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
    lexical concept
  • a fiendish despot
  • diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils
  • fires lit up a diabolic scene
  • hellish torture
  • infernal instruments of war
  • satanic cruelty
  • something demonic in him — something that could be cruel
  • unholy grimaces

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:demonic
  2. enl:diabolic
  3. enl:diabolical
  4. enl:fiendish
  5. enl:hellish
  6. enl:infernal
  7. enl:satanic
  8. enl:unholy
wn:interlingual indexili:i6205

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • demonicdiabolicdiabolicalfiendishhellishinfernalsatanicunholy
  • demonicdiabolicdiabolicalfiendishhellishsatanicunholy