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inferno

Main Entry:
inferno [in-fur-noh; Italian een-fer-naw]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hell
Synonyms: Hades, blazes, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, hellfire, netherworld, purgatory, underworld
Main Entry: fire
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burning
Synonyms: blaze, bonfire, campfire, charring, coals, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flame and smoke, flames, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, hot spot, incandescence, inferno, luminosity, oxidation, phlogiston, pyre, rapid oxidation, scintillation, scorching, sea of flames, searing, sparks, tinder, up in smoke, warmth
Main Entry: hell
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
Main Entry: holocaust
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: widespread destruction
Synonyms: annihilation, carnage, catastrophe, devastation, extermination, extinction, genocide, immolation, inferno, mass murder, massacre, slaughter
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: 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
Related Words
Main Entry: hell
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
chthonian, diabolic, hellish, in limbo, infernal, stygian
Concept Thesaurus
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].
Antonyms: heaven
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