purgatory
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- noun
- /ˈpɜrɡəˌtɔri/
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purgatorio
- Many people describe their time in the hospital as a form of purgatory, where they must endure suffering before returning to health.
But I'm in the interview application purgatory stage of that project.
- But I'm in the interview application purgatory stage of that project.
- The don't is a sort of narcissistic relationship purgatory.
- In a way, it's kind of like having a purgatory, you know, place.
Examples
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As it is, what with the play being such a phenomenal success, he's stuck in theatrical purgatory.
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I just want to stop living in this purgatory.
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So right now you are in a purgatory that you cannot control.
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Live in that purgatory between life and death.
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This may be purgatory, but it's better than living in hell.
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Is this purgatory or did I die and go straight to hell?
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This place is what you call purgatory.
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I petitioned that he might be delivered from a purgatory of which I had been a part.
Fiction book (1994) -
My life was on the links: school was just the purgatory where I worked off the excesses of joy.
Fiction book (1999) -
Alas, the alternatives that statesmen face are not utopia or hell, but purgatory.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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Great physical or mental pain someone feels
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A place or situation that causes great suffering and pain
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A state of great unhappiness and suffering often caused by poverty
Antonyms
How Severe
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- NSFW
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5.6
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4.8
87
3.5
651
2.4
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word purgatory also comes from the Latin purgare 'to cleanse', and you can see the same root in pure. Because of that idea of being 'made clean', people use purgatory to describe a hard, temporary time you must go through before things get better.