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- Dictionaryinferno/ɪnˈfəːnəʊ/
noun
- 1. a large fire that is dangerously out of control: "the inferno had swept through the city"
- 2. hell (with reference to Dante's Divine Comedy).
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noun [ C ] uk / ɪnˈfɜː.nəʊ / us / ɪnˈfɝː.noʊ / plural infernos. Add to word list. a very large uncontrolled fire: a raging inferno. The building was an inferno by the time the fire service arrived. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Fire & flame. beacon. blaze. bonfire. brand. brush fire. bushfire. conflagration. dumpster fire. fireball.
: a place or a state that resembles or suggests hell. the inferno of war. also : an intense fire : conflagration. a raging inferno. Synonyms. conflagration. fire. holocaust. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of inferno in a Sentence.
An inferno is a huge fire that's difficult to control, like an inferno that burns down a whole city block. Inferno also can describe any horrible place where people suffer.
a place or region that resembles hell: The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies. Synonyms: oven, hellhole, furnace. (initial capital letter, italics) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned. Compare paradise ( def 7 ), purgatory ( def 2 ). inferno. / ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ / noun.
1. A place or condition suggestive of hell, especially with respect to human suffering or death: the inferno of battle. 2. A place of fiery heat or destruction. [Italian, hell, from Late Latin īnfernus; see infernal .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
a place or region that resembles hell. The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies. 3. (cap, italics) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned. Compare paradise (sense 7), purgatory (sense 2) SYNONYMS 2. furnace, hellhole, oven.
Inferno definition: A place or condition suggestive of hell, especially with respect to human suffering or death.
noun [ C ] us / ɪnˈfɝː.noʊ / uk / ɪnˈfɜː.nəʊ / plural infernos. Add to word list. a very large uncontrolled fire: a raging inferno. The building was an inferno by the time the fire department arrived. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Fire & flame. beacon. blaze. bonfire. brand. brush fire. bushfire. conflagration. dumpster fire.
noun. /ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ/. /ɪnˈfɜːrnəʊ/. [usually singular] (plural infernos) a very large dangerous fire that is out of control. a blazing/raging inferno. The flames quickly turned the house into a raging inferno. Three men managed to escape from the inferno.
inferno. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English in‧fer‧no /ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ $ -ɜːrnoʊ/ noun (plural infernos) [ countable] 1 an extremely large and dangerous fire – used especially in news reports raging/blazing inferno Within minutes, the house had become a raging inferno. see thesaurus at fire 2 literary when someone has very ...
