Dictionary Definition
diabolical adj
1 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" [syn: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelian,
mephistophelean]
2 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" [syn: demonic,
diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]
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Of, or concerning the devil; satanic
Extremely wicked or cruel
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Draconian, Mephistophelian,
Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous,
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like,
devilish, diabolic, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, hellborn, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, murderous, ogreish, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhuman, vicious, wolfish