diabolic
pronunciation
How to pronounce diabolic in British English:
UK [ˌdaɪə'bɒlɪk]
How to pronounce diabolic in American English:
US [ˌdaɪə'bɑlɪk]
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- Adjective:
- showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
Word Origin
- diabolic (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French diabolique (13c.), from Late Latin diabolicus, from Ecclesiastical Greek diabolikos "devilish," from diabolos (see devil (n.)).
Example
- 1. Such the spirit wreck of the high technology which we are suffered , is utmost diabolic and brutal .
- 2. Diabolic edict is no longer reduced by damage block items ( stout , vanguard , etc )
- 3. They hope in time to make the non-existence of appearance appear , for in that moment what we now take to be existence will be seen to be in truth only an outlying portion of the diabolic essence .
- 4. I will not grow a goatee . In the old days they made you look diabolic . Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of generation x.