| Main Entry: | hellfire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fateful |
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apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, dire, direful, disastrous, fatal, fire-and-brimstone, grave, lethal, mortal, ominous, portentous, ruinous, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
Synonyms: |
Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, blazes, bottomless pit, difficulty, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, grave, hell-fire, infernal regions, inferno, limbo, lower world, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, place of torment, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
heaven |
| Main Entry: | inferno |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
Synonyms: |
Hades, blazes, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, hellfire, netherworld, purgatory, underworld |
| Main Entry: | fire and brimstone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eternal damnation |
Synonyms: |
everlasting fire, everlasting torment, hellfire, lake of fire and brimstone |
| Main Entry: | living hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
Synonyms: |
Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, blazes, bottomless pit, difficulty, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, grave, hell-fire, infernal regions, inferno, limbo, lower world, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, persecution, pit, place of torment, purgatory, suffering, torment, torture, tortures of the damned, trial, underworld, wretchedness |
| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
chthonian, diabolic, hellish, in limbo, infernal, stygian
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| Concept: | Hell. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
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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 |
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