Definitions for Inferno

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Inferno in·fer·no

Spelling: [in-fur-noh; for 3 also Italian een-fe Inferno is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Inferno (efinnor).

Definitions for Inferno

noun

1. hell; the infernal regions.
2. a place or region that resembles hell:
3. (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).

Origin of Inferno

1825-35; Italian Late Latin infernus hell, noun use of Latin infernus; see infernal

Examples for Inferno

Their captivity was a pretty big story for a while, but then came September, and the inferno of Lower Manhattan.

A sitcom conceived by, written by, and starring her understandably ignited an inferno of buzz.

Now Paradise and the inferno are understood philosophically as states of being, not places on a chart.

Still, one can easily envision hordes clutching their dog-eared paperbacks of inferno straining to find the flag.

We stood now on the rim of the crater, looking straight into the inferno.

So, she went through the inferno of days and nights in a dreariness of suffering that was deadly.

You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.

It was an inferno of shifting lights and long leaping shadows.

What stories they had to tell of the inferno they had come from!

And here, in this inferno of luggage, was White Fang deserted by the master.