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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tartarean¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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