pandemonious

English

Etymology

From pandemonium +‎ -ous.

Adjective

pandemonious (comparative more pandemonious, superlative most pandemonious)

1. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
   • 1895, Sam Flint, “Pandemonium”, in On the Road to the Lake, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, […], page 76:

     One ponderous cloud of smoke, blacker than midnight, remained unchanging above the pandemonious lake.

   • 1898, Metaphysical Magazine: A Monthly Review of the Occult Sciences and Metaphysical Philosophy, page 415:

     Behold how my words have died from all the ages, and nothing can be heard but the grating sounds of your pandemonious conclaves.

   • 1899 July, “Richard Blundell, the Collier Artist of Neston”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester, page 68, column 2:

     The brutal clamour, and pandemonious hideousness then prevailing at the Cock-pit, shocked the morals, in a not very moral age, of the inquisitive, and ever active ‘Mr. Samuel Pepys’ in London nearly two hundred years before.