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infernal

adjective
🔊/ɪnˈfɜːnl/
🔊/ɪnˈfɜːrnl/
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  1. [only before noun] (old-fashioned) extremely annoying极讨厌的；可恶的
    • Stop that infernal noise!别那么死命嚷嚷了！🔊🔊
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
  2. (literary) connected with hell地狱的；阴间的
    • the infernal regions阴间。
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Christian Latin infernalis, from Latin infernus ‘below, underground’, used by Christians to mean ‘hell’, on the pattern of inferni (masculine plural) ‘the shades’ and inferna (neuter plural) ‘the lower regions’.