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

From his primeval throne was Kronos hurled Into the pit Tartarean, dark, profound, With all his troop of friends.

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The demonic element in a man, therefore, may in one case be the demonic of the etherial and celestial, in another the demonic of the Tartarean and infernal.

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Tartarean Honeysuckle, with three accessory buds in each axil.

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He seized the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts,435 Or back to life compels the wand'ring ghosts.

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We stand before it like Sisyphus before the great rock which he rolled so laboriously and so vainly up that Tartarean hill.

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