ə̇nˈfər(ˌ)nō, -ˈfə̄(ˌ)-, -ˈfəi(ˌ)- noun
( -s )
Etymology: Italian, hell (especially as the title of one of the books of the Divina Commedia, long allegorical & philosophical poem by Dante Alighieri died 1321 Italian poet), from Late Latin infernus — more at infernal
1. : a place or a state of torment and suffering
the inferno of the passions — Edmund Wilson
inferno of war
inferno of seething misery and poverty — G.B.Shaw
2. : a place that resembles or suggests hell in being dark, noisy, chaotic, lawless
the factory seemed an inferno of dirt and noise
plunge into the inferno of the engine room — Joseph Whitehill
3. : intense heat
roaring inferno of the blast furnace
: conflagration
girders melted in the inferno