diabolical
Meaning of diabolical
adjective
- characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil.
his diabolical cunning
- disgracefully bad or unpleasant.
a singer with an absolutely diabolical voice
late Middle English (as diabolic ): from Old French diabolique or ecclesiastical Latin diabolicus, from diabolus ‘devil’; the form diabolical dates from the early 16th century.
Information about diabolical
- It is an adjective.
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CatalanHyphenation of diabolical
di-a-bol-i-cal
- It consists of 5 syllables and 10 chars.
- diabolical is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
diabolical synonyms
Meaning devilish:
devilish, diabolic, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
Meaning demonic:
demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
Meaning wicked; fiendish:
Meaning relating to or characteristic of a demon or evil spirit:
Meaning profoundly immoral and wicked:
Meaning evil or morally wrong:
Meaning irreligious or immoral:
Meaning of a low or inferior standard or quality:
Meaning causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious:
Meaning very bad or unpleasant:
Meaning extremely unpleasant or disagreeable:
Meaning very unpleasant, serious, or shocking:
Meaning shockingly unacceptable:
Meaning worthy of or causing shame or disgrace:
Meaning (of circumstances or conditions) very bad; deplorable:
Meaning shockingly bad in quality:
Meaning causing shock or dismay; horrific:
Meaning horrifyingly wicked:
Meaning lower in rank, status, or quality:
Meaning below the usual or required standard:
Meaning of only average quality; not very good:
Meaning not satisfactory; not good enough:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning badly made or done:
Meaning having or showing no skill; clumsy:
Meaning making or characterized by many clumsy mistakes:
Meaning feeling or causing despair:
Meaning dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality:
Meaning extremely serious or urgent:
Meaning pitifully or disgracefully bad:
Meaning extremely bad or unpleasant:
Meaning causing indignation or disgust; offensive:
Meaning extremely bad; appalling:
Meaning of poor quality; bad or wrong:
Meaning extremely unpleasant:
Meaning arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness:
Meaning characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery:
Meaning deserving or arousing pity:
Meaning very poor or bad:
Meaning not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome:
Meaning a flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag:
Meaning very bad; worthless or useless:
Meaning resembling a rope, especially in being long, strong, and fibrous:
Meaning (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring:
Meaning of poor quality; worthless:
Meaning extremely bad; dreadful:
Meaning outstandingly bad; shocking:
Meaning reaching a high or the highest degree; very great:
Meaning more than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate:
Meaning unwarranted or inappropriate because excessive or disproportionate:
Meaning unusually or disproportionately large; excessive:
Meaning not sensible or restrained; excessive:
Meaning not right or reasonable:
Meaning shockingly bad or excessive:
Meaning carried out, occurring, or acting without direct provocation:
Meaning unable to be endured:
Meaning not satisfactory or allowable:
Meaning not guided by or based on good sense:
Meaning not able to be shown to be right or reasonable:
Meaning not able to be authorized or sanctioned; unjustifiable:
Meaning not justifiable by argument:
Meaning too bad to be justified or tolerated:
Meaning so bad as to be unable to be forgiven or excused:
Meaning (of a fault or offence) too severe to be pardoned; unforgivable:
Meaning extremely poor in quality:
Meaning of extremely poor quality:
Meaning (of a person or action) contemptible; worthless:
Meaning worthless or contemptible (used as a general term of abuse):
Meaning very great, bad, or overwhelming:
diabolical antonyms
Meaning extremely good; outstanding:
Translation of diabolical
- Spanish: diabólico
- Italian: diabolico
- Portuguese: diabólico
- German: teuflisch, diabolisch
- French: diabolique, satanique
Words that rhyme with diabolical
Chaldaical, Hebraical, Judaical, Mosaical, Pharisaical, Ptolemaical, algebraical, archaical, hebraical, judaical, laical, mesaraical, mosaical, nonalgebraical, paradisaical, pharisaical, phrarisaical, prosaical, spondaical, stanzaical, subalgebraical, trocaical, unalgebraical, unpharasaical, unprosaical, astrolabical, asyllabical, cherubical, coxcombical, cubical, globical, hydrophobical, iambical, monosyllabical, nabobical, orbical, parisyllabical, polysyllabical, pseudocubical, quadrisyllabical, rhombical, semicubical, subcubical, subrhombical, syllabical, tetrasyllabical, tetrsyllabical, trisyllabical, uncubical, duncical
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