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purgatory

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Main Entry: purgatory
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hell

Synonyms:

Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, pit, place of torment, suffering, underworld
Main Entry: grief
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental suffering

Synonyms:

affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, infelicity, lamentation, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mournfulness, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, repining, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness

Antonyms:

delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness
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: perdition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hell

Synonyms:

Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, bottomless pit, condemnation, damnation, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, inferno, loss of the soul, lower world, nether world, pit, place of torment, punishment, purgatory, ruin, suffering, underworld
Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: penalty

Synonyms:

abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for

Antonyms:

encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward
Main Entry: living death
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fate worse than death

Synonyms:

death in life, hell, hell on earth, purgatory, suffering
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
Related Words
Main Entry: hell
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
chthonian, diabolic, hellish, in limbo, infernal, stygian
Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
self, baculine, castigatory, chastened, condemnatory, condemned, damnatory, exilic, inflictive, non, punished, punishing, punitive, punitory
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