Meaning of DIABOLIC
| Pronunciation: | | `dIu'bâlik
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- [adj] extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
- [adj] showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
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| | Synonyms: | | demonic, devilish, diabolical, evil, fiendish, hellish, infernal, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, satanic, unholy, wicked |
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| | Definition: | | \Di`a*bol"ic\, Diabolical \Di`a*bol"ic*al\, a. [L.
diabolicus, Gr. ? devilish, slanderous: cf. F. diabolique.
See {Devil}.]
Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or
appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious;
atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or
diabolical temper or act. ``Diabolic power.'' --Milton. ``The
diabolical institution.'' --Motley. -- {Di`a*bol"ic*al*ly},
adv. -- {Di`a*bol"ic*al*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abominable, accursed, animal, anthropophagous, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, corrupt, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, depraved, devilish, devil-like, diabolical, Draconian, dreadful, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, foul, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill, impious, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, Mephistophelian, monstrous, murderous, odious, ogreish, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, serpentine, sharkish, sinful, sinister, slavering, subhuman, Tartarean, terrible, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unhuman, vicious, vile, wicked, wolfish |
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