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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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The meaning of INFERNO is a place or a state that resembles or suggests hell; also : an intense fire : conflagration. How to use inferno in a sentence.
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. firebrand. firepit. firestorm. flare. open fire phrase. pilot. post-fire. spark.
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.
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. fireball. firebrand. firepit. firestorm. flare. open fire phrase. pilot. post-fire. spark
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.
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.
inferno. (ɪnfɜːʳnoʊ) Word forms: plural infernos. countable noun [usually singular] If you refer to a fire as an inferno, you mean that it is burning fiercely and causing great destruction. [journalism] Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.
Definition of inferno noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
inferno meaning, definition, what is inferno: an extremely large and dangerous fire – ...: Learn more.
Inferno definition: A place or condition suggestive of hell, especially with respect to human suffering or death.
