• adj.
    ⦿showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
    lexical concept
  • a mephistophelian glint in his eye
  • devilish schemes
  • the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen
  • the diabolical expression on his face

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:devilish
  2. enl:diabolic
  3. enl:diabolical
  4. enl:mephistophelean
  5. enl:mephistophelian
wn:interlingual indexili:i6207

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • devilishmephistopheleanmephistophelian
  • devilishdiabolicdiabolicalmephistopheleanmephistophelian