What are some alternative words for hellish?
Synonyms for hellish
ˈhɛl ɪʃ
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Princeton's WordNet
beastly, hellish, god-awful(adj)
very unpleasant
"hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"
Synonyms:
unholy, diabolical, demonic, brutish, infernal, bestial, fiendish, satanic, brute(a), god-awful, diabolic, brutal, beastlydemonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy(adj)
extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
"something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
Synonyms:
blasted, mephistophelian, wicked, infernal, damned, diabolic, deuced, beastly, satanic, blamed, damn, goddam, goddamned, blessed, unhallowed, unholy, blame, god-awful, demonic, darned, diabolical, goddamn, sinful, fiendish, mephistophelean, devilish
Wiktionary
Editors Contribution
infenal
relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld.
this is a hellish man
Submitted by acronimous on September 29, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
hellish(a.)
Synonyms:
of hellhellish(a.)
Synonyms:
infernal, diabolical, fiendish, devilish, demoniacal, fiend-like, atrocious, detestable, abominable, execrable, nefarious, very wicked
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hellish(a)
Synonyms:
infernal, malignant, fiendish, diabolical, atrocious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hellish":
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#5728 | damn | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#7199 | blame | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#8543 | blessed | |
#8709 | horrible | |
#9271 | brutal | |
#9775 | awful | |
#15133 | damned | |
#17295 | blamed | |
#24206 | sinful | |
#27390 | blasted | |
#29204 | satanic | |
#33198 | demonic | |
#33382 | infernal | |
#34224 | unholy | |
#36310 | goddamn | |
#47676 | diabolic | |
#53053 | diabolical | |
#54159 | devilish | |
#54728 | bestial | |
#56071 | darned | |
#59683 | hellish | |
#70510 | beastly | |
#72118 | goddamned | |
#72547 | nightmarish | |
#72930 | brutish | |
#77842 | fiendish | |
#104380 | goddam | |
#219191 | unhallowed |
How to use hellish in a sentence?
Our hypothesis is that Venus may have had a stable climate for billions of years. It is possible that the near-global resurfacing event is responsible for its transformation from an Earth-like climate to the hellish hothouse we see today.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
It was a hellish frenzy, absolutely horrible. People were just jumping into the canals to escape the inferno.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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