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- Dictionaryin·fer·no/inˈfərnō/
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.
noun [ C ] uk / ɪnˈfɜː.nəʊ / us / ɪnˈfɝː.noʊ / plural infernos. Add to word list. 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.
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.
noun [ C ] us / ɪnˈfɝː.noʊ / uk / ɪnˈfɜː.nəʊ / plural infernos. Add to word list. 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.
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. / ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ / noun.
If you refer to a fire as an inferno, you mean that it is burning fiercely and causing great destruction.
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.
