Tartarean

[ tahr-tair-ee-uhn ]

adjective
  1. of or relating to Tartarus; infernal.

Origin of Tartarean

1
1615–25; <Latin Tartare(us) of Tartarus (see -eous) + -an

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How to use Tartarean in a sentence

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

    Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy
  • Tartarean regions have no worse woes, nor the Hell of Christians, than memory inflicts upon those who have done evil.

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

    Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy
  • He stood on the bridge overwhelmed by the despair whose Tartarean blackness only twenty can experience.

    The Mountebank | William J. Locke
  • Some say this Tartarean conqueror was called Timour or Temur-chi, and his origin is wrapt in mystery.

British Dictionary definitions for Tartarean

Tartarean

/ (tɑːˈtɛərɪən, -ˈtɑːrɪ-) /


adjective
  1. literary of or relating to Tartarus; infernal

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