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pandemonious

adj

Etymology

From pandemonium + -ous.

  1. derived from daemonium
  2. derived from πᾶν
  3. suffixed as pandemonious — “pandemonium + ous”

Definitions

  1. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.

    • One ponderous cloud of smoke, blacker than midnight, remained unchanging above the pandemonious lake.
    • Behold how my words have died from all the ages, and nothing can be heard but the grating sounds of your pandemonious conclaves.
    • The brutal clamour, and pandemonious hideousness then prevailing at the Cock-pit, shocked the morals, in a not very moral age, of the inquisitive, and ever active ‘Mr. Samuel Pepys’ in London nearly two hundred years before.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA