"fiendish" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈfiːndɪʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fiendish.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more fiendish [comparative], most fiendish [superlative]
Etymology: fiend + -ish Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fiend|ish}} fiend + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} fiendish (comparative more fiendish, superlative most fiendish)
  1. Sinister; evil; like a fiend. Synonyms: conniving Translations (sinister, evil): зъл (zǎl) (Bulgarian), демоничен (demoničen) (Bulgarian), 惡魔似 (Chinese), 恶魔似 (Chinese), duivels (Dutch), sinister (Dutch), pirullinen (Finnish), paholaismainen (Finnish), diabolique (French), diabólico (Galician), teuflisch (German), μοχθηρός (mochthirós) (Greek), भुतहा (bhuthā) (Hindi), ördögi (Hungarian), pokoli (Hungarian), ördöngös (Hungarian), diabolico (Italian), demoniaco (Italian), 악마 (angma) (Korean), djevelsk (Norwegian), diewlisch (Plautdietsch), sinistro (Portuguese), diabólico (Portuguese), sinistru (Romanian), rău (Romanian), demonic (Romanian), дья́вольский (dʹjávolʹskij) (Russian), diabólico (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fiendish-en-adj-KevcKXvZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'sinister, evil': 99 1
  2. Very difficult.
    Sense id: en-fiendish-en-adj-Q2lCX-Ja
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fiendishly, fiendishness

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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "sinister"
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "diabolique"
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "diabólico"
    },
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "teuflisch"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mochthirós",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "μοχθηρός"
    },
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bhuthā",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "भुतहा"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "ördögi"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "pokoli"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "ördöngös"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "diabolico"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "demoniaco"
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "angma",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "악마"
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "demonic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "sinister, evil",
      "word": "дья́вольский"
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