| Main Entry: | underworld |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity, element |
Synonyms: |
Cosa Nostra, Mafia, abyss, criminals, felonry, gangland, gangsters, mob*, organized crime, racket, riffraff, syndicate |
| 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: | hereafter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life after death |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, aftertime, afterward, afterworld, by-and-by, future, future existence, future life, heaven, hell, next world, offing, otherworld, the beyond, to-be, underworld, world to come |
Antonyms: |
life |
| 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: | organized crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coordinated criminal organization |
Synonyms: |
Black Hand, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, gangland, mob, organized crime family, the Syndicate, the mob, the rackets, the syndicate, the 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: | 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: | racket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity |
Synonyms: |
cheating, con game, confidence game, conspiracy, corruption, crime, dirty pool, dishonesty, dodge, extortion, fraud, game, graft, illegality, illicit scheme, intrigue, lawlessness, lay, plot, push, scheme, shakedown, squeeze*, swindle, swindling, theft, trick, underworld |
| Main Entry: | Cosa Nostra |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the Mafia |
Synonyms: |
Black Hand, Mafia, Syndicate, gangdom, gangland, mob, organized crime, organized crime family, rackets, the Syndicate, the mob, the underworld, underworld |
| Main Entry: | nether world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
Synonyms: |
Hades, infernal pit, infernal regions, nether regions, underworld, world of the dead |
Antonyms: |
heaven, paradise |