Vicious vs Infernal - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
*:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
Evil, immoral or depraved.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Savage and aggressive.
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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
(as an expletive, not vulgar) Very annoying; damned.
* 1905 , Bram Stoker, The Man
Vicious is a related term of infernal.
As adjectives the difference between vicious and infernal
is that vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity 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.vicious
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* (obsolete)Adjective
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*Derived terms
* vicious circleinfernal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings
- As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman,