pandemonious

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adjective

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

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivepandemonious (comparative more pandemonious, superlative most pandemonious)

comparative more pandemonious · superlative most pandemonious

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

    One ponderous cloud of smoke, blacker than midnight, remained unchanging above the pandemonious lake.

    1895, Sam Flint, “Pandemonium”, in On the Road to the Lake, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, […], page 76
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    Behold how my words have died from all the ages, and nothing can be heard but the grating sounds of your pandemonious conclaves.

    1898, Metaphysical Magazine: A Monthly Review of the Occult Sciences and Metaphysical Philosophy, page 415

    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.

    1899 July, “Richard Blundell, the Collier Artist of Neston”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester, page 68, column 2

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