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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely hopeless situation |
| Synonyms: | Hades, Hell, abysm, abyss, chasm, crevasse, fire and brimstone, gulf, infernal regions |
| Main Entry: | perdition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, bottomless pit, condemnation, damnation, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, inferno, loss of the soul, lower world, nether world, pit, place of torment, punishment, purgatory, ruin, suffering, underworld |
| Main Entry: | purgatory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, pit, place of torment, suffering, underworld |
| Main Entry: | nether world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Hades, infernal pit, infernal regions, nether regions, underworld, world of the dead |
| Antonyms: | heaven, paradise |
| Main Entry: | living hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| 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, persecution, pit, place of torment, purgatory, suffering, torment, torture, tortures of the damned, trial, underworld, wretchedness |
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| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
chthonian, diabolic, hellish, in limbo, infernal, stygian
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| Concept: | Hell. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
| Synonyms: |
-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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