fiendish
1
8.6
- adjective
- /ˈfiːndɪʃ/
:
diabólico
- And they've created yet another fiendish puzzle to test your mettle.
- a fiendish puzzle
- a fiendish contraption
And they've created yet another fiendish puzzle to test your mettle.
- And they've created yet another fiendish puzzle to test your mettle.
Examples
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Hadley, we're up against an opposition of fiendish ingenuity.
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But the next time, it'll be Pitstop who will fall... for one of my fiendish traps!
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"You mean, was it some kind of fiendish secret code?
Fiction book (2001) -
"But, but - that's fiendish!"
Fiction book (2002) -
And anybody could see that the beast had no wits to match the fiendish contraption.
Fiction book (1999) -
The design of this fiendish puzzle was an out-of-focus black-and-white photograph of trees in winter.
Academic text (1998) -
It simply wouldn't be sporting to chat with one half of Myst's creative team without touching upon the subject of the fiendish puzzles that have kept players glued to their monitors all these years.
Blog text (33) -
The mathematician presented a fiendish problem that stumped even the brightest students.
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Solving the fiendish riddle took hours of careful thought and creativity.
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Many players found the game's fiendish level design frustrating and challenging.
Synonyms
∞
1.6
Not easy to do or understand
876
5.4
Difficult to understand or deal with because it has many connected parts
276
3.2
Hard to understand and makes people feel unsure
214
3.9
Difficult to do because it has hidden problems
52
7.0
Hard to understand or describe, like the meaning of a symbol
46
8.8
Difficult or impossible to understand
42
4.6
Hard to understand or explain
27
6.4
Hard to understand and causing confusion
16
6.7
Making people feel confused because it is hard to understand
14
8.3
Very hard to understand
12
8.9
Hard to understand because it shows no clear meaning or feeling
9
6.4
Difficult to understand
7
8.1
Full of twists and turns, like a winding road or an argument
4
6.8
Very complicated and hard to follow, like rules or relationships
2
7.9
Hard to do because it has small, delicate parts
1
8.1
Difficult to solve or understand, often about problems
1
5.1
Fairly difficult and needing some skill or care to do
1
9.3
Hard to understand, like a puzzle
Very hard to understand because it is complicated
Extremely difficult problem that seems impossible to solve, like a tangled knot
Antonyms
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fiendish comes from fiend ('devil') and -ish ('like'), and people also used it for clever, evil tricks. A helpful way to remember this is to imagine a puzzle made by a devil, so fiendish can mean 'very difficult' or made to confuse you.