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Definition of hellacious in English: hellaciousadjective hɛˈleɪʃəshɛˈleɪʃəs North American informal Very great, bad, or overwhelming. there was this hellacious hailstorm Example sentencesExamples - The Victorian Era was hellacious for women in a lot of respects.
- Because of some hellacious traffic, it had taken about forty minutes to reach the Ramada Plaza in downtown San Francisco, where Coach informed us we would be staying the night.
- Worse, Internal Affairs blames the entire situation on possible mental problems (she suffered a hellacious childhood) and she has been placed on psychological leave.
- Loving dads who go through a divorce often face a hellacious struggle trying to stay involved in their kids' lives.
- Music is used nicely, especially the climatic, tense tunes that play during frightening and tense battles against hellacious adversaries.
- All I know is that my wife asked me to do something, because she hasn't had a good night sleep since 2000, and she has a hellacious trial coming up.
- Among her eye-popping attributes was a hellacious set of hamstrings.
- Which of these hellacious alternatives is less hellacious?
- To the contrary, investment by multinational corporations can help alleviate the hellacious environmental conditions from which poor nations suffer.
- Recently I found myself in the midst of a hellacious project while at work.
- Here is a man who places his passionate, hellacious inner torment on the screen for all to experience, for everyone to become involved and possessed by.
- I'm sure they had hellacious high hopes for him, but it just didn't work out.
- Chiefly it was a reaction to a hellacious amount of travel I had to do in the preceding three months.
- But the hellacious part is, it's the best way that anyone's found to do it.
- If it was summer, the doors would be thrown open against the hellacious interior heat, and these guys would stop at the doorway and peer in, suddenly hesitant, wondering if maybe this was such a good idea after all.
- We book ourselves out every November so we have time to relax after a hellacious summer schedule and so we can enjoy the coming holiday season starting with Thanksgiving.
- The driving was hellacious on those traffic-choked streets, but my uncle always gave us a bonus for the extra hassle, so it wasn't all bad.
- Like I said, this is going to be one hellacious ride!
- This moment was more excruciating than the hellacious interview session he'd endured with his producers, and that was certainly saying something.
- It looks to top out at around $120 - $130 million in spite of hellacious competition.
Synonyms nasty, disgusting, very unpleasant, awful, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, horrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious
Derivatives adverb North American informal When some people moved into the cabin next door about Thursday and turned their hellaciously loud children loose, I broke out the noise-canceling headphones and realized I should have been doing that for at least an hour every day. Example sentencesExamples - If you could push out of the way the fact that this guy looked like any old disheveled, homeless, college professor in an unkempt beard and a semi-clean tweed coat with patches on the elbows, he was hellaciously funny and good company.
- That's a hellaciously strained metaphor for someone to come up with in casual conversation and, frankly, it doesn't even really make any sense.
- But sterilizing a spacecraft is hellaciously difficult.
- I think that she was making a choice, a hellaciously bad one, but a choice all the same.
Origin 1930s: from hell + -acious, perhaps suggested by bodacious. Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of hellacious in US English: hellaciousadjectiveheˈlāSHəshɛˈleɪʃəs North American informal Very great, bad, or overwhelming. there was this hellacious hailstorm Example sentencesExamples - Music is used nicely, especially the climatic, tense tunes that play during frightening and tense battles against hellacious adversaries.
- It looks to top out at around $120 - $130 million in spite of hellacious competition.
- To the contrary, investment by multinational corporations can help alleviate the hellacious environmental conditions from which poor nations suffer.
- But the hellacious part is, it's the best way that anyone's found to do it.
- If it was summer, the doors would be thrown open against the hellacious interior heat, and these guys would stop at the doorway and peer in, suddenly hesitant, wondering if maybe this was such a good idea after all.
- The driving was hellacious on those traffic-choked streets, but my uncle always gave us a bonus for the extra hassle, so it wasn't all bad.
- All I know is that my wife asked me to do something, because she hasn't had a good night sleep since 2000, and she has a hellacious trial coming up.
- Worse, Internal Affairs blames the entire situation on possible mental problems (she suffered a hellacious childhood) and she has been placed on psychological leave.
- Like I said, this is going to be one hellacious ride!
- Recently I found myself in the midst of a hellacious project while at work.
- Loving dads who go through a divorce often face a hellacious struggle trying to stay involved in their kids' lives.
- Among her eye-popping attributes was a hellacious set of hamstrings.
- Chiefly it was a reaction to a hellacious amount of travel I had to do in the preceding three months.
- Because of some hellacious traffic, it had taken about forty minutes to reach the Ramada Plaza in downtown San Francisco, where Coach informed us we would be staying the night.
- This moment was more excruciating than the hellacious interview session he'd endured with his producers, and that was certainly saying something.
- Here is a man who places his passionate, hellacious inner torment on the screen for all to experience, for everyone to become involved and possessed by.
- Which of these hellacious alternatives is less hellacious?
- I'm sure they had hellacious high hopes for him, but it just didn't work out.
- We book ourselves out every November so we have time to relax after a hellacious summer schedule and so we can enjoy the coming holiday season starting with Thanksgiving.
- The Victorian Era was hellacious for women in a lot of respects.
Synonyms nasty, disgusting, very unpleasant, awful, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, horrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious
Origin 1930s: from hell + -acious, perhaps suggested by bodacious. |