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| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, bottomless pit*, difficulty, fire and brimstone*, grave, inferno, limbo, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, blazes, everlasting fire, hell-fire, infernal regions, lower world, place of torment |
| Antonyms: | heaven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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-nouns
hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol., hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies; hot place., purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss., [Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto., Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus; Tophet.
-adjectives
hellish, infernal, stygian.
-phrases
dies irae dies illa; "the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night" [Love's Labor's Lost].
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| Antonyms: | heaven |
| Main Entry: | bottomless pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely hopeless situation |
| Synonyms: | Hell, abyss, chasm, crevasse, fire and brimstone*, gulf, Hades, abysm, infernal regions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | damnation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | everlasting punishment |
| Synonyms: | condemnation, doom, hell, perdition, suffering, torment |
| Main Entry: | hereafter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life after death |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, afterward, future, future life, heaven, hell, underworld, aftertime, afterworld, by-and-by, future existence, next world, offing, otherworld, the beyond, to-be, world to come |
| Antonyms: | life |
| Main Entry: | pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole, cavity |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, crater, dent, depression, dimple, excavation, grave, gulf, hell, hollow, indentation, mine, pockmark, pothole, puncture, shaft, tomb, trench, well, perforation |
| Antonyms: | mountain |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe mental distress |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, annoyance, bane, bother, harassment, hell, irritation, misery, nag, nuisance, pain, pain in the neck*, persecution, pest, plague, provocation, rack, scourge, suffering, torture, trouble, vexation, worry, excruciation, nagging |
| Notes: | torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering |
| Antonyms: | contentment, glee, happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | living death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate worse than death |
| Synonyms: | hell, purgatory, suffering, death in life, hell on earth |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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