- [only before noun] (old-fashioned)
extremely annoying 极讨厌的；可恶的 - (literary)
connected with hell 地狱的；阴间的 the infernal regions 阴间。
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’.