hellhole
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈhɛlˌhoʊl/
- Informal
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antro
- After spending a week in the dilapidated hotel, she described it as a hellhole full of unclean rooms and rude staff.
- live in a hellhole
- a hellhole prison
- a dank hellhole
Onward out of that hellhole communist state.
- Onward out of that hellhole communist state.
- And you can really go down a hellhole in some ways if your thoughts are distressing or painful and that kind of thing.
- Rich Bueller's Day Off According to his blog post Drilling to Hell Facts, Bueller started off by contacting TBN to ask about sources for the hellhole piece.
Examples
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I'm gonna take us far away from this totalitarian hellhole.
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We should put every bit of effort into making Schenectady the hellhole that some claim it is.
Blog text (13) -
Our bad luck we would end up in a worse hellhole than the one we left.
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Why the hell did you want to come back to this hellhole?
Fiction book (2000) -
It's safer out there than it is in this hellhole.
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Let's get outta this hellhole.
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Sadly, after the riot, it rapidly descended into the hellhole it has become.
Blog text (19) -
In this hellhole rotting away slowly, slowly, slowly.
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That's my one-way ticket out of this hellhole.
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I’m never going back to that hellhole.
Synonyms
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3.7
A very painful or difficult experience
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6.8
A place or situation that causes great suffering and pain
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8.2
A situation of great danger and destruction, like war or a big fire
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8.8
A very bad situation that makes you feel unhappy
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7.3
An unpleasant, chaotic place where people act badly toward each other
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9.1
A very small dirty room that is unpleasant to live or work in
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7.0
An unpleasant run-down place where few people want to live
A very unpleasant and unsafe place with crime and poor services
A place believed to be for punishment after death or a very bad situation
A place that is very dirty and full of trash and bad smells
A very messy place like a room full of toys
A small dirty house or room where poor people live
Antonyms
How Unpleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hellhole joins two simple words: hell ('a place of great suffering') and hole ('a small, often dirty space'), so it creates a strong picture of a very bad place. That's why a hellhole means a place that is extremely unpleasant, dirty, or dangerous.