Meaning of HELLISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'helish
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- [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"
- [adj] very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"
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| | Synonyms: | | beastly, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, evil, fiendish, god-awful, infernal, satanic, unholy, unpleasant, wicked |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hell"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant;
wicked; detestable; diabolical. ``Hellish hate.'' --Milton.
-- {Hell"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Hell"ish*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | Acherontic, anarchic, angry, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chaotic, chthonian, chthonic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devilish, devil-like, diabolic, Draconian, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, ghoulish, hellborn, infernal, infuriate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, Lethean, mad, Mephistophelian, mindless, murderous, ogreish, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, pandemonic, Plutonian, Plutonic, purgatorial, raging, ravening, raving, rip-roaring, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, storming, stormy, Stygian, subhuman, sulfurous, Tartarean, tempestuous, troublous, truculent, tumultuous, turbulent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhuman, uproarious, vicious, wild, wolfish |
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