1.
[syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]
2. of or relating to Satan;
- Example: "Satanic verses"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Satanic \Sa*tan"ic\, Satanical \Sa*tan"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
satanique, Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to Satan; having the qualities of Satan;
resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish;
infernal. "Satanic strength." "Satanic host." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Detest the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults
over the character it has ruined. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
[1913 Webster] -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. --
Sa*tan"ic*al*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
satanic
adj 1: 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, diabolical, fiendish,
hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]
2: of or relating to Satan; "Satanic verses"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "satanic":
Draconian, Mephistophelian, Tartarean, abhorrent, abominable,
amoral, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous,
beastly, bestial, black, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded,
brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, corrupt, cruel,
cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, dark, demoniac, demoniacal,
demonic, demonish, demonlike, depraved, despicable, devil-like,
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dire, evil, execrable, fell, feral,
ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, godless, heinous,
hellborn, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid,
horrifying, immoral, impious, infernal, inhuman, inhumane,
iniquitous, loathsome, monstrous, murderous, ogreish, perverse,
perverted, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, saturnine,
savage, serpentine, sharkish, sinister, slavering, subhuman,
truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy,
unhuman, unspeakable, unutterable, vicious, vile, wicked,
wolfish