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Diabolical vs Infernal - What's the difference?

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Diabolical is a related term of infernal.


As adjectives the difference between diabolical and infernal

is that diabolical is extremely wicked or cruel while infernal is of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.

As a noun infernal is

(obsolete) an inhabitant of the infernal regions.

diabolical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely wicked or cruel.
  • Of or concerning the devil; satanic.

    • Derived terms

    * diabolically * diabolicalness

    Related terms

    * diabolic

    References

    infernal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
  • (by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
  • Stygian, gloomy.
  • Diabolical or fiendish.
  • * Addison
    • the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings
  • (as an expletive, not vulgar) Very annoying; damned.
  • * 1905 , Bram Stoker, The Man
    • As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman,

    Related terms

    * infernally * infernal machine * inferno

    Antonyms

    * (of or relating to hell) heavenly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An inhabitant of the infernal regions.
    • (Drayton)
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