hellacious
- adjective
- /həˈleɪʃəs/
- Informal
- They threw a hellacious party that everyone talked about for weeks.
Examples
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It's been a hellacious display of courage by both fighters.
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I have just a hellacious amount of mondo worms.
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She's getting pretty good at the drums, judging from the hellacious noise she makes at dinner!
Blog text (4) -
You're one hellacious piece of manpower.
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A hellacious tour, dude!
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It's hellacious.
Fiction book (1998) -
A hellacious 5th inning of infield defense put two extra Indians runs on the board, and Jose Valverde blew the lead in the 9th.
Blog text (2) -
THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS, TENACIOUS, HELLACIOUS SPRING BREAKISH PARTY OF THE CENTURY STARTS RIGHT HERE.
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The concert was a hellacious experience that left the audience in awe.
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Her performance in the play was simply hellacious; everyone was impressed by her talent.
Synonyms
Very impressive or very difficult
An informal way to say something is very impressive or large to show strong feeling
Very good and impressive
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hellacious comes from hell and the ending -acious, which gives the sense 'like' or 'full of', so it literally means 'like hell' or 'very intense'. Because of that strong idea, people sometimes use it in a positive way to mean extremely impressive, just like the words hellish or a hell of a show strong feeling.