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Definitions: Satanic |
SatanicAdjective1. Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces". 2. Of or relating to Satan; "Satanic verses". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "satanic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Literature | Satanic The Satanic School. So Southey called Lord Byron and his imitators, who set at defiance the generally received notions of religion. Of English writers, Byron, Shelley, Moore, and Bulwer are the most prominent; of French writers Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Paul de Kock, and George Sand. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: SatanicSynonyms: demonic (adj), diabolic (adj), diabolical (adj), fiendish (adj), hellish (adj), infernal (adj), unholy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Fiendish, fiendlike; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran. |
Satan | Adjective: satanic, diabolic, devilish; infernal, hellborn. |
Vice | Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Satanic |
| English words defined with "satanic": Infernal stone ♦ Luciferian, Lucifrian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "satanic": Ages ♦ Diable, Dunstan. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "satanic": Lucifrian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Satanic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (satanic, satanically). |
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Screenplays | It was built on an ancient Indian burial ground, and was the setting of Satanic rituals, witch-burnings, and five John Denver Christmas specials. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) it's satanic! (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; writing credit: Ian McLellan Hunter; Robert Louis Stevenson) By the horns of everything satanic, I beg you! To live I must have heat. (Santa Claus; writing credit: René Cardona; Adolfo Torres Portillo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974) Sexual Satanic Awareness (1972) Satanic Attraction (1990) | |
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 | Cackle; cackling; evil; sinister; Mephistophelean; accursed; devil; cursed; damnable; damned; demoniac; demonic; detestable; diabolic; diabolical; execrable; fiendish; hellborn; hellish; hell; infernal; iniquitous; nefarious; satanic; serpentine; unhallow. |
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St. Joannes Chrysostomus | For to sin, indeed is human; but to persevere in sin is not human but altogether satanic. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He struggles, shakes his little wings, and still tries to fly away, but the lad capering about, laughs with a Satanic laughter. |
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Civil Liberties | Honduras | The Government prohibits immigration of foreign missionaries who practice religions that claim to use witchcraft or satanic rituals. (references) |
Pakistan | Ayub Masih (detained since 1996) was convicted of blasphemy for making favorable comments about Salman Rushdie, the author of the controversial book, "The Satanic Verses," and was sentenced to death in April 1998. Ayub's family and 13 other landless Christian families were forced from their village in 1996 following the charges, and he survived an attempt on his life in 1997, when he was shot at outside of the courtroom while on trial. (references) | |
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| "Satanic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.53% of the time. "Satanic" is used about 213 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.53% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 213 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "satanic": near-satanic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
satanic | 278 |
satanic cult | 184 |
satanic bible | 168 |
satanic symbol | 163 |
satanic ritual | 100 |
satanic verse | 87 |
satanic art | 80 |
picture satanic | 77 |
church satanic | 55 |
satanic sex | 40 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "satanic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | satanik (bag of bones), djallëzor (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish). (various references) | |
Arabic | عفريتي (demonic, impish), إبليسي, شيطاني (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, impish, infernal, playful, serpentine, swinging, unholy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сатанински (fiendish, sulphurous, unholy). (various references) | |
Czech | ïábelský (demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, fiendish, infernal). (various references) | |
Dutch | satanisch (demonic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | satana. (various references) | |
Finnish | saatanallinen (diabolic). (various references) | |
French | satanique, démoniaque. (various references) | |
German | satanisch. (various references) | |
Greek | σατανικόσ (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, sulphurous), μεφιστοφελικόσ (mephistophelian). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שט י (devilish, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sátáni (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish), ördögi (daemonic, demoniacal, demonic, devil, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, mephistophelean, mephistophelian). (various references) | |
Italian | satanico. (various references) | |
Manx | jouyllagh (demoniac, devilish, diabolical). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atanicsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | satânico (daemonic, demonic, devilish, fierce, mephitis). (various references) | |
Romanian | satanic (satanically), drãcesc (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, infernal). (various references) | |
Russian | сатанинский (devilish, satanical). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | satanski. (various references) | |
Spanish | satánico. (various references) | |
Swedish | satanisk (devilish, satanical), djävulsk (daemonic, demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanical). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับซาตาน. (various references) | |
Turkish | şeytani (demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, unhallowed), şeytanca (cloven-hoofed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, malicious, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, slily). (various references) | |
Ukranian | сатанинський (diabolic, diabolical, satanical), диявольський (demoniacal, demonic, fiendish, hellish, satanical). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "satanic": satanically. (additional references) | |
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"Satanic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astano, ataensic, catanach, catenic, Kacanik, Natani, Sabahni, Sarandi, Satajit, sataki, satanas, Satani, satantic, saturniid, Savanin, savaric, Scapania, scaranish, Settani, Settanni, sytanic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "satanic" (pronounced suta"nik) |
| 6 | -u t a" n i k | botanic. |
| 5 | -t a" n i k | Titanic. |
| 4 | -a" n i k | galvanic, germanic, inorganic, manic, mechanic, messianic, oceanic, organic, panic, transoceanic, tympanic, volcanic. |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, bubonic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, eugenic, ganglionic, gnomonic, hallucinogenic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, masonic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, orogenic, ovonic, pathogenic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, photogenic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, scenic, schizophrenic, sonic, splenic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telegenic, telephonic, tonic, transgenic, tunic, ultrasonic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: actins, antics, casita, nastic, sancta. | |
-2 letters: actin, antas, antic, antis, cains, canst, cants, saint, satin, scant, stain, tains. | |
-3 letters: acta, acts, ains, aits, anas, anis, ansa, anta, anti, ants, asci, cain, cans, cant, casa, cast, cats, cist, nits, sain, sati, scan, scat, snit, tain, tans, tics, tins. | |
-4 letters: aas, act, ain, ais, ait, ana, ani, ant, can, cat, cis, ins, its, nit, sac, sat, sic, sin, sit, tan, tas, tic, tin, tis. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, an, as, at, in, is, it, na, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: actinias, antacids, cantinas, captains, estancia, fanatics, katcinas, santalic, stanzaic. | |
+2 letters: acquaints, actinians, analcites, analytics, anapestic, anarchist, anelastic, antalgics, ascertain, botanicas, calamints, cantharis, cantraips, caseating, caseation, caseinate, causation, cavatinas, claimants, craniates, estancias, fantastic, fascinate, katchinas, laitances, raincoats, sacristan, sectarian, vacations. | |
+3 letters: accusation, actuations, acylations, analeptics, analgetics, anamnestic, anapestics, anaplastic, anarchists, annalistic, anticaries, antiracism, antiracist, antisocial, antistatic, applicants, ascertains, assistance, avocations, blatancies, botanicals, candidates, cantilenas, carnations, caseations, caseinates, castrating, castration, catatonias, catatonics, catenaries, catfacings, causations, chatelains, cocaptains, diaconates, discarnate, escalating, escalation, euthanasic, fabricants, fanaticism, fantastico, fantastics, fasciation, fascinated, fascinates, fascinator, incarnates, isocyanate, lactations, machinates, nicotianas, patricians, phantasmic, placations, sacristans, scarlatina, sectarians, semantical, tacticians, talismanic, tarriances, vaccinates, vicariants. | |
+4 letters: abdications, abreactions, abstracting, abstraction, accidentals, accompanist, accusations, acetanilids, acoustician, activations, adjutancies, admittances, advocations, aeronautics, allocations, anaesthetic, anarchistic, anastomotic, animalistic, annunciates, anthracites, anticipants, anticipates, antifascism, antifascist, antimusical, antiracisms, antiracists, ascertained, assistances, associating, association, astronautic, attractions, bacitracins, batrachians, beauticians, cachinnates, calumniates, cantatrices, cantharides, cantillates, capitations, captaincies, captainship, caretakings, carnalities, carnallites, castigating, castigation, castrations, catarrhines, catenations, cavitations, ceratopsian, chatelaines, christiania, coaptations, cohabitants, complaisant, contrarians, deracinates, dilatancies, emaciations, emancipates, escalations, evacuations, excavations, fanaticisms, fanaticizes, fantastical, fasciations, fascinating, fascination, fascinators, glaciations, handicrafts, inactivates, isocyanates, lacerations, landscapist, macerations, machinators, maculations, magnificats, masticating, mastication, nasogastric, noncapitals, nyctalopias, pancratiums, pancreatins, plainchants, playactings, postcranial, reacquaints, sacculation, sanctuaries, satanically, scarlatinal, scarlatinas, shamanistic, stagnancies, syntactical, syntagmatic, tetracaines, thrasonical, transacting, transaction, transuranic, vacationers, vacationist, vaccinators, vandalistic, vaticinates, vulcanisate. | |
+5 letters: abstractions, acceptations, acclamations, acclimations, accompanists, acetanilides, acetylations, acidulations, acousticians, acquittances, aesthetician, affectations, altercations, anacreontics, anaesthetics, anastigmatic, anecdotalism, anecdotalist, anelasticity, annunciators, antagonistic, anthocyanins, antibacklash, antiblackism, anticatalyst, anticathodes, anticipators, anticlimaxes, antifascisms, antifascists, antimacassar, antipiracies, antisocially, applications, ascertaining, associations, astronautics, astronomical, auscultating, auscultation, backstabbing, basification, bicarbonates, brachiations, broadcasting, calcinations, calculations, calibrations, calumniators, cancelations, candidatures, cantharidins, capacitances, capitalising, captainships, captivations, carbonations, cardinalates, carminatives, castigations, centenarians, ceratopsians, charlatanism, chatoyancies, christianias, clairvoyants, coagulations, coarctations, complainants, contaminants, contaminates, covariations, cytochalasin, decantations, declamations, declarations, deescalating, deescalation, defalcations, demarcations, diagnostical, disclamation, dynastically, ejaculations, emancipators, emasculating, emasculation, eradications, exclamations, fabrications, factionalism, fantasticate, fantasticoes, fascinations, fractionates, gasification, gynecomastia, hallucinates, incantations, incapacities, incarcerates, incarnations, interactants, intercalates, intercoastal, jactitations, laciniations, lacrimations, lactalbumins, laicizations, landscapists, machinations, maintenances, malefactions, mastications, matchmakings, matriculants, meatpackings, microanalyst, monastically, mythomaniacs, naturalistic, nonparasitic, nonsectarian, onomastician, pancreatitis, pantisocracy, paronomastic, participants, plastocyanin, postvaccinal, rarefactions, ratiocinates, recantations, reclamations, reescalating, reescalation, reincarnates, revaccinates, saccharinity, sacculations, sanctionable, satisfaction, scapegoating, scatteration, scatterbrain, sectarianism, sectarianize, semantically, speciational, statistician, subantarctic, sugarcoating, synaptically, thiocyanates, tracklayings, tradescantia, transactions, transoceanic, transpacific, transuranics, unassociated, vacationists, vaccinations, vacillations, vacuolations, vaticinators, vulcanisates, vulcanizates, watchmakings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 74 61 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- - .- -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a t a n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0074 0061 006E 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678667807569 |
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