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Tartarean

[ tahr-tair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Tartarus; infernal.


Tartarean

/ -ˈtɑːrɪ-; tɑːˈtɛərɪən /

adjective

  1. literary.
    of or relating to Tartarus; infernal


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tartarean1

1615–25; < Latin Tartare ( us ) of Tartarus ( -eous ) + -an

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Example Sentences

Their Tartarean situation might by some have been called an imprudent one for two unattended women.

Tartarean regions have no worse woes, nor the Hell of Christians, than memory inflicts upon those who have done evil.

A true Tartarean dignity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with marks of constraint, for it had grown in her with years.

He stood on the bridge overwhelmed by the despair whose Tartarean blackness only twenty can experience.

Some say this Tartarean conqueror was called Timour or Temur-chi, and his origin is wrapt in mystery.

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