inferno

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˌɪˈnfɜrˌnoʊ/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A large, intense, and uncontrollable fire; a conflagration of great magnitude.; Hell; the underworld or place of torment, especially as described in Dante's Divine Comedy.; A place or situation of extreme heat, chaos, or suffering; a hellish environment.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: infernos

Collocations

raging infernoblazing infernoan inferno of flamesturned into an infernoa living inferno

Derivatives

infernalinfernally

Synonyms

conflagrationblazefirestormholocausthellfirepandemonium

Commonly confused

infer
EN: 'Infer' means to deduce or conclude from evidence; 'inferno' means a large, destructive fire or hellish place.
infernal
EN: 'Infernal' is the adjective form meaning hellish or relating to hell; 'inferno' is the noun referring to the fire or place itself.

Spelling tips

EN: The standard English plural is 'infernos,' not the Italian 'inferni.' Avoid adding a silent 'e' at the end.

💬 Examples

  1. The warehouse was reduced to ashes in the raging inferno.

  2. Dante's Inferno describes nine circles of suffering in the afterlife.

  3. The battlefield became an inferno of explosions and smoke.