adjective

• Relating to or characteristic of Tartarus; hellish and infernal.

  ‘Tartarean punishments’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A Tartarean gloom filled the gorge of San Martino.’
  • ‘The tyrants, who would have disgraced the society of gods and men, were thrown headlong into the Tartarean abyss.’
  • ‘The pagans saw Olympus and the Tartarean depths, as the Christians see Paradise and Hell.’