Synonyms for Underworld
ˈʌn dərˌwɜrldun·der·world

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1. underworldnoun

   Synonyms:
   netherworld

2. underworldnoun

   A name for the realm of ancestors in Heathenry.

   Synonyms:
   netherworld

3. underworldnoun

   The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

   Synonyms:
   netherworld

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1. underworldnoun

   the criminal class

   Synonyms:
   netherworld, infernal region

2. Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworldnoun

   (religion) the world of the dead

   "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis

   Synonyms:
   underworld, the pits, sin, infernal region, pit, netherworld, snake pit, inferno, hell on earth, perdition, hellhole, blaze, nether region

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1. • Class
   • Imaginary Place
   • Religion

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1. List of paraphrases for "underworld":

   nether, mob, netherworld, hell, triad

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1. Seth Ferranti:

   He was fearless, he was reckless and he basically didn’t care what anyone else thought and did what he wanted to do, that old street justice, death before dishonor outlaw creed, is still there especially in the criminal underworld and in prison, so stuff like that can catch up to you. It doesn't always catch up to you. But in Alpo’s case, it did.

2. Edwin M. Schur:

   [When a victimless criminal] is treated as an enemy of society, he almost necessarily becomes one. Forced into criminal acts, immersed in underworld-related supply networks, and ever-conscious of the need to evade the police, his outlooks as well as behavior become more and more anti-social.

3. David Sweeney:

   These compact remnants of dead stars show a fundamentally different distribution and structure to the visible galaxy, the ‘height’ of the galactic underworld is over three times larger in the Milky Way itself. And an amazing 30 percent of objects have been completely ejected from the galaxy.

4. Marc Broude:

   Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

5. Seth Ferranti:

   In the streets and in the criminal underworld when you do something like that you’re basically looked upon as a hero, you earn points, you earn stripes.