hellish
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈhɛlɪʃ/
:
infernal
- The heat and humidity during the summer made working outside a hellish experience.
- a hellish life
There are, I would say hellish places in in the Middle East.
- There are, I would say hellish places in in the Middle East.
- Now I know that sounds hellish, but damn, it's been so good.
- And then it's really hellish for, for a number of years.
- He dies and he finds himself in this hellish place.
- You know, sometimes debt is hellish.
- They've been young gay men, usually with some kind of hellish background, hellish childhood, want to escape their bodies.
- And they are trained on this, this prison planet, which is hellish conditions.
- How many accounts of hellish Indies do you think you've had?
Examples
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Why would you stow away to such a hellish place?
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It's hard to believe that the world could be so hellish one day and like heaven the next.
Fiction book (1990) -
This was in some ways the most hellish battle in history and here are some notes to round out the week.
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Was it a hellish drive?
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Well, this is a hellish place.
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I imagine you have your reasons... for getting yourself involved in this hellish situation.
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What a hellish ordeal for you.
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I mean, we've worked for some hellish people in our time, but this guy's in another league.
Fiction book (2000) -
Look, he's going through a hellish divorce.
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Others experienced ecstatic release from their hellish distress and were brought to different degrees of peace and joy.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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1.5
Very bad or frightening in a way that makes you feel upset
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1.0
So frightening that people feel afraid
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5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
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3.7
Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock
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9.0
Extremely cruel and shocking
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8.1
Extremely evil and cruel, as if caused by the devil
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7.0
Very shocking and scary, causing fear or disgust
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4.5
Very bad and shocking, causing people to feel fear or sadness
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4.1
A very unpleasant thing that shocks or disgusts you
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8.2
Very evil and cruel, like a devil
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3.1
A very bad or painful condition, for example during illness
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7.5
Extremely evil and cruel, like something from hell
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6.3
Extremely cruel and evil, like something from hell
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7.0
Very frightening and unpleasant, like a bad dream
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8.4
Very bad and unpleasant
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7.1
Very bad in a moral way and deserving strong blame
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7.6
Very cruel and shocking, causing great pain and fear
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7.9
Being very cruel and evil and making others suffer
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6.7
Very unpleasant to experience
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8.3
Very evil and cruel, causing great pain or suffering
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4.2
Very bad or unpleasant in a strong way
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8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
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9.0
Very bad or difficult and hard to deal with
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7.8
Very evil and cruel, like the devil
An extremely unpleasant situation that is hard to handle
Antonyms
How Unpleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hellish comes from hell, the old idea of a place of terrible pain, plus the ending -ish which means 'like'. So hellish means 'like hell' and is used for things that are very unpleasant, cruel, or painful.