Hellish
['helɪʃ] or ['hɛlɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Of hell.[2]. Infernal, diabolical, fiendish, devilish, demoniacal, fiend-like, atrocious, detestable, abominable, execrable, nefarious, very wicked.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ANGELIC]
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Examples
- Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It well suits brutes like thee to be tampering and trinketing with hellish cures, and to be giving your labour to the sons of mischief. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The feelings of kindness and gentleness, which I had entertained but a few moments before, gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The promise I had made to the d?mon weighed upon my mind, like Dante's iron cowl on the heads of the hellish hypocrites. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It ran thus:-- Your hellish machinery is shivered to smash on Stilbro' Moor, and your men are lying bound hand and foot in a ditch by the roadside. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He felt the mutual hellish recognition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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