单词 | hellscape |
释义 | hellscapen. A landscape resembling a vision of hell; a particularly bleak, frightening, or inhospitable place, scene, or state. Also: an artistic representation of hell. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant place galère1756 Tartarus1821 galley1859 hellscape1894 asshole1918 arsehole1926 pisshole1928 shithole1930 shithouse1949 armpit1957 shitbox1966 bumhole1985 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > type of paysage1611 winter piece1612 rockscape1754 pastoral1798 skyscape1811 snow scene1836 icescape1839 cloudscape1868 townscape1880 winterscape1884 treescape1885 farmscape1886 cowscape1896 roadscape1899 cityscape1915 dunescape1928 slumscape1947 hellscape1959 jungle-scape1973 1894 Walker County (Georgia) Messenger 11 Jan. 6/1 From this point [of Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park] one can view the triangle land scape o'er, or hellscape as it may appropriately be called. 1959 J. Canaday Mainstreams Mod. Art xiv. 523/2 Surrealism has even closer affinities with the diableries and hellscapes of such Flemish painters as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel. 1992 E. Gottlieb Orwell Conundrum iii. 197 Although the locales for the four stories happen to be Italy, Spain, Algeria, and London, the real locale is the hellscape of the modern psyche under the spell of totalitarianism. 2015 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. (Mag.) 32/2 The neighbourhood was like a postapocalyptic hellscape. There were dump trucks thundering by, power lines hanging down and no sidewalks. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1894 |
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