Dictionary Definition
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, unholy]
2 of or relating to Satan; "Satanic verses"
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Extensive Definition
Satanic has multiple meanings:
- To do with The Devil, or Satan
- Related to Satanism
- Satanic (film), a 2006 film
- Operation Satanic, when the DGSE bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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