<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(plural infernos) hell; the infernal regions.</li><li>a place or region that resembles hell: The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies.</li><li>Synonyms: oven, hellhole, furnace.</li><li>(initial capital letter, italics) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned.</li></ul>