Hadean
Pertaining to Hades or hell.
Adjective
- Pertaining to Hades or hell.
- No Ceres weeps at the Hadean gate! - 1902, Frederic Crowninshield, A Painter's Moods, page 49:
Synonyms: Plutonian Plutonic Tartarean Acherontic infernal Hadean hellish helly stygian subtartarean
- Of or relating to the Hadean geological eon.
Origin
From Hades + -an, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs). By surface analysis, had- + -e- + -an.
Forms
Proper noun
- The Hadean eon; part of the Precambrian supereon, spanning from around 4.6 to 4 billion years ago.