Words that rhyme with diurnal

  • colonel
    n 1: a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
  • eternal
    adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing] 2: tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn: endless, eternal, interminable]
  • external
    adj 1: happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures" [ant: internal] 2: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: external, extraneous, outside] 3: from or between other countries; "external commerce"; "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help" [syn: external, international, outside(a)] 4: purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. n 1: outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion"
  • fraternal
    adj 1: of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men; "a fraternal order" 2: (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova; "fraternal twins are biovular" [syn: fraternal, biovular] [ant: identical, monovular] 3: like or characteristic of or befitting a brother; "brotherly feelings"; "close fraternal ties" [syn: brotherly, brotherlike, fraternal] [ant: sisterlike, sisterly, sororal]
  • hibernal
    adj 1: characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep" [syn: brumal, hibernal, hiemal]
  • infernal
    adj 1: characteristic of or resembling Hell; "infernal noise"; "infernal punishment" 2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy] 3: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] 4: of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire; "infernal heat" 5: being of the underworld; "infernal regions" [ant: supernal] n 1: an inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
  • internal
    adj 1: happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant: external] 2: occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation" [syn: internal, intragroup] 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] 4: located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: inner, interior, internal] 5: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: inner, internal, intimate]
  • journal
    n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary, journal] 2: a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the medical journals" 3: a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred [syn: daybook, journal] 4: a record book as a physical object 5: the part of the axle contained by a bearing
  • kernel
    n 1: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" [syn: kernel, meat] 2: a single whole grain of a cereal; "a kernel of corn" 3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty]
  • maternal
    adj 1: characteristic of a mother; "warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers [ant: paternal] 2: relating to or derived from one's mother; "maternal genes" 3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal] [ant: filial] 4: related on the mother's side; "my maternal grandmother" [syn: enate, enatic, maternal(p)]
  • nocturnal
    adj 1: belonging to or active during the night; "nocturnal animals are active at night"; "nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day" [ant: diurnal] 2: of or relating to or occurring in the night; "nocturnal darkness"
  • paternal
    adj 1: belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits" 2: characteristic of a father [ant: maternal] 3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal] [ant: filial] 4: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn: agnate, agnatic, paternal]
  • supernal
    adj 1: being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men" [ant: infernal] 2: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn: celestial, ethereal, supernal]
  • vernal
    adj 1: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age" [syn: youthful, vernal, young] 2: of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal equinox" [ant: autumnal, summery, wintery, wintry]
  • sternal
    adj 1: of or relating to or near the sternum
  • sempiternal
    adj 1: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, endless, sempiternal]
  • coeternal
  • bernal
  • burnell

See also diurnal definition and diurnal synonyms