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archidiabolical

archidiabolical adjective: of or relating to an archdevil.

Adjective

archidiabolical (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of or relating to an archdevil.
    • Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman.1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville...
    • The goat figure, his satanic majesty, came forward with an archidiabolical dignity […]1965, John Fowles, chapter 61, in The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, page 452

Origin of archidiabolical

From archi- + diabolical.

Questions about archidiabolical

What does archidiabolical mean?
Archidiabolical means of or relating to an archdevil.
What part of speech is archidiabolical?
Archidiabolical is an adjective.

Words near archidiabolical in the dictionary

  1. archicontinents
  2. archicortex
  3. archicortical
  4. archicortices
  5. Archidamian
  6. archidiabolical
  7. archidiaconal
  8. archidiaconate
  9. archidiaconates
  10. archididascalian
  11. archididascalos

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