pandemonious

English

Etymology

From pandemonium + -ous.

Adjective

pandemonious (comparative more pandemonious, superlative most pandemonious)

  1. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
    • 1895, Sam Flint, “Pandemonium”, in On the Road to the Lake, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, [], page 76:
      One ponderous cloud of smoke, blacker than midnight, remained unchanging above the pandemonious lake.
    • 1898, Metaphysical Magazine: A Monthly Review of the Occult Sciences and Metaphysical Philosophy, page 415:
      Behold how my words have died from all the ages, and nothing can be heard but the grating sounds of your pandemonious conclaves.
    • 1899 July, “Richard Blundell, the Collier Artist of Neston”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester, page 68, column 2:
      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.
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