fiendishness
- noun
- /ˈfiːndɪʃnəs/
- She admired the fiendishness of the escape room's design, which challenged even experienced players.
Examples
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The puzzle's fiendishness left many players frustrated.
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Many students struggled with the fiendishness of the final exam questions.
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The fiendishness of the puzzle made it nearly impossible for anyone to solve.
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I admire the fiendishness of the magician's tricks.
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The fiendishness of the puzzle made it frustrating for even the most experienced solvers.
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Her fiendishness in creating such complex mazes impressed everyone at the competition.
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The game designer was known for the fiendishness of his level layouts, which often left players stumped.
Synonyms
Hard to find or understand
A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
Being difficult to deal with and needing skill or care
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve
A quality of having many twists that makes paths or ideas hard to follow
Many unexpected changes and surprises in a story, like a plot that keeps you guessing
The state of having many connected parts that are hard to understand
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
Antonyms
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fiendishness also came to be used for things that are very tricky or cleverly made to confuse. Think of a fiend as someone who plans 'wicked' tricks, so fiendishness can mean being extremely difficult or designed to challenge you.