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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, blazes, bottomless pit, difficulty, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, grave, hell-fire, infernal regions, inferno, limbo, lower world, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, place of torment, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | heaven |
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| Concept: | Hell. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
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-nouns
hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol., hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies; hot place., purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss., [Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto., Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus; Tophet.
-adjectives
hellish, infernal, stygian.
-phrases
dies irae dies illa; "the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night" [Love's Labor's Lost].
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| Antonyms: | heaven |
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| Main Entry: | bottomless pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely hopeless situation |
| Synonyms: | Hades, Hell, abysm, abyss, chasm, crevasse, fire and brimstone, gulf, infernal regions |
| Main Entry: | damnation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | everlasting punishment |
| Synonyms: | condemnation, doom, hell, perdition, suffering, torment |
| Main Entry: | hereafter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life after death |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, aftertime, afterward, afterworld, by-and-by, future, future existence, future life, heaven, hell, next world, offing, otherworld, the beyond, to-be, underworld, world to come |
| Antonyms: | life |
| Main Entry: | pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole, cavity |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, crater, dent, depression, dimple, excavation, grave, gulf, hell, hollow, indentation, mine, perforation, pockmark, pothole, puncture, shaft, tomb, trench, well |
| Antonyms: | mountain |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe mental distress |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, annoyance, bane, bother, excruciation, harassment, hell, irritation, misery, nag, nagging, nuisance, pain, pain in the neck, persecution, pest, plague, provocation, rack, scourge, suffering, torture, trouble, vexation, worry |
| Notes: | torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering |
| Antonyms: | contentment, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | living death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate worse than death |
| Synonyms: | death in life, hell, hell on earth, purgatory, suffering |
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