Definition of hellish in English:

hellish

adjective ˈhɛlɪʃˈhɛlɪʃ

1Of or like hell.
an unearthly, hellish landscape
Example sentencesExamples
- War is hell, but can be made more or less hellish.
- I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape.
- He describes their hellish home of hidden evil upon evil, windy wolf-dens, cliffs, and skies of dark air and black rain.
- This promises to be a hard-hitting play from a news correspondent filing reports from a hellish war zone.
- The air he inhaled transformed into a hellish inferno, scorching his lungs.
- A fireworks explosion set off a huge blaze in central Lima late on Saturday, killing at least 240 people and turning a busy shopping street into a hellish scene.
- Then the Devil suddenly turned and looked straight in our direction and pointed right at us and started laughing a ghastly hellish devil laugh.
- A hellish landscape of fire, smoke and death formed a backdrop for a bunch of kids a long way from home who were just doing their job.
- I wouldn't want her mangy little dog to suffer an inferno of hellish fury.
- Overhead, a blinding red pulse burned bright before hurtling into the wall and bringing down rocks and fire in a hellish burst of light and sound and crushing pressure.
- Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld.
- Several blinding nuclear blasts ensued, covering the rock with dust and flame in a hellish inferno.
- They marched all day, passing through a hellish, wrecked landscape.
- The grim reality of this hellish landscape pervaded every aspect of work and leisure.
- They emerged on stage bathed in a hellish red glow and launched into a set astonishing in its ferociousness and intensity.
- It seemed to stretch on for miles, going slightly uphill into a long corner then heading up, and away to whatever hellish dimension existed as the faeries' foul home.
- And just what are we looking for in this hellish landscape?
- In time, the hellish landscape of the high South lost its fearful interest for Adriana and became monotonous, a distance to be covered with a minimum of pain.
- The firelight flickered over the daemon's armor, giving him an extremely hellish quality.
- But the tattoo drew her focus to the middle of the design and there the two devilish eyes stared down upon her with hellish fire.
Synonyms
infernal, Hadean
devilish, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, satanic, demonic, demoniac, demoniacal, Mephistophelian, ungodly, evil, wicked
Greek Mythology Stygian
rare cacodemonic
1. 1.1informal Extremely difficult or unpleasant.
  it had been a hellish week
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nearby rock vaporized instantly with explosive force, creating a hellish chamber of radiation and overwhelming pressure several hundred yards in diameter.
  The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
  I know these people are hellish to deal with, but have you stressed to them that letting their dog run free is against the law rather than just being a nuisance to you?
  The wind increased blow harder and harder in a hellish gale that never seemed to cease.
  We know that there are many beings in the world today living in hellish states and suffering terribly every moment of their lives.
  It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock.
  Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span.
  Come to think of it, there could hardly be a better theme for Rome than heaven and hell - it's a city of heavenly buildings, art and ancient ruins, but it suffers from hellish traffic and endless crowds.
  The description of his journey includes sequences in Swindon's town centre, around the station and in the station itself, which is transformed in Christopher's mind into a place of hellish noise and confusion.
  The answer came as the wickedly bitter temperatures turned the freezing rain into a hellish mix of snow and hail.
  In a way that makes this job even harder than some of the hellish jobs I've had in the past.
  She was lost in a horrible, hellish world, and the only person she could trust right now was Zach.
  The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, hellish in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art.
  Isolation is an evil feeling, and I've had some hellish weekends lately.
  It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare.
  Shocking, infernal, hellish, unendingly nasty - it's all sounding more and more like my last vacation in Paris.
  The Dutch have never forgotten how desperately they fought during eight hellish days, and the veterans can never forget the kindness and generosity of the people who shared what little food they had, and tended their wounds.
  If you've ever seen a more terrifying beard than this, then you are most certainly a liar, because there is no beard more frightening than this hellish monstrosity.
  Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined.
  But, in the immediate aftermath of this hellish disaster, I don't know how long the American reporters are going to stay or how long the Arab reporters are going to stay.
  Synonyms
  horrible, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, vile, foul, abominable, appalling, atrocious, horrendous, frightful

adverb ˈhɛlɪʃˈhɛlɪʃ

British informal

as submodifier Extremely (used for emphasis)
it was hellish expensive
Example sentencesExamples
- A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week.
- It's always been done this way, it would be hellish complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo.
- The horse is a hefty great beast at 17.1 hands and hellish strong.
- And as they will attest, once information is out there it's hellish tricky to take it back.
Synonyms
very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, tremendously, immensely, hugely, intensely, acutely, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly

Derivatives

hellishly

adverb ˈhɛlɪʃ(ə)liˈhɛlɪʃli

as submodifier a hellishly dull holiday
Example sentencesExamples
- I do it all the time, when I want to transplant a sentence from one location to another in one of my hellishly long essays.
- And I would bet anything that what they are counting down now is the number of days left before winter, cloud cover and hellishly difficult terrain reduce the chances of successful ground operations.
- The political balance between the two tribes gives us a labyrinthine civil service, two governments and hellishly high taxes.
- On the contrary, it is a hellishly brutal place where despotic cruelty, casual violence, ready sex and the relentless pursuit of blood feuds are the order of the day.
- It's hellishly difficult and no fun in practice.

hellishness

noun

Her portrayal of urban poverty, including harsh glimpses of racial stratification, sufficiently suggests the hellishness of Smith's everyday world.
Example sentencesExamples
- What they could not have guessed when they made their historic observations of Venus was the inhospitable hellishness of the planet's landscape.
- He had no illusions about the hellishness of war.
- He gives a speech about why he loves being in the Marines, but it's delivered against the backdrop of an apocalyptic oil fire, and his words carry less weight than the hellishness around him.
- Yesterday had the potential for hellishness, but somehow managed to turn out almost as perfect as it could have been instead.

Rhymes

embellish, relish

Definition of hellish in US English:

hellish

adjectiveˈheliSHˈhɛlɪʃ

1Of or like hell.
an unearthly, hellish landscape
Example sentencesExamples
- Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld.
- I wouldn't want her mangy little dog to suffer an inferno of hellish fury.
- They emerged on stage bathed in a hellish red glow and launched into a set astonishing in its ferociousness and intensity.
- In time, the hellish landscape of the high South lost its fearful interest for Adriana and became monotonous, a distance to be covered with a minimum of pain.
- This promises to be a hard-hitting play from a news correspondent filing reports from a hellish war zone.
- Several blinding nuclear blasts ensued, covering the rock with dust and flame in a hellish inferno.
- The air he inhaled transformed into a hellish inferno, scorching his lungs.
- The grim reality of this hellish landscape pervaded every aspect of work and leisure.
- I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape.
- But the tattoo drew her focus to the middle of the design and there the two devilish eyes stared down upon her with hellish fire.
- He describes their hellish home of hidden evil upon evil, windy wolf-dens, cliffs, and skies of dark air and black rain.
- Then the Devil suddenly turned and looked straight in our direction and pointed right at us and started laughing a ghastly hellish devil laugh.
- They marched all day, passing through a hellish, wrecked landscape.
- War is hell, but can be made more or less hellish.
- It seemed to stretch on for miles, going slightly uphill into a long corner then heading up, and away to whatever hellish dimension existed as the faeries' foul home.
- Overhead, a blinding red pulse burned bright before hurtling into the wall and bringing down rocks and fire in a hellish burst of light and sound and crushing pressure.
- A hellish landscape of fire, smoke and death formed a backdrop for a bunch of kids a long way from home who were just doing their job.
- The firelight flickered over the daemon's armor, giving him an extremely hellish quality.
- And just what are we looking for in this hellish landscape?
- A fireworks explosion set off a huge blaze in central Lima late on Saturday, killing at least 240 people and turning a busy shopping street into a hellish scene.
Synonyms
infernal, hadean
1. 1.1informal Extremely difficult or unpleasant.
  it had been a hellish week
  Example sentencesExamples
  The wind increased blow harder and harder in a hellish gale that never seemed to cease.
  Shocking, infernal, hellish, unendingly nasty - it's all sounding more and more like my last vacation in Paris.
  I know these people are hellish to deal with, but have you stressed to them that letting their dog run free is against the law rather than just being a nuisance to you?
  The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
  We know that there are many beings in the world today living in hellish states and suffering terribly every moment of their lives.
  The answer came as the wickedly bitter temperatures turned the freezing rain into a hellish mix of snow and hail.
  The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, hellish in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art.
  It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock.
  Isolation is an evil feeling, and I've had some hellish weekends lately.
  The description of his journey includes sequences in Swindon's town centre, around the station and in the station itself, which is transformed in Christopher's mind into a place of hellish noise and confusion.
  It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare.
  Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined.
  If you've ever seen a more terrifying beard than this, then you are most certainly a liar, because there is no beard more frightening than this hellish monstrosity.
  She was lost in a horrible, hellish world, and the only person she could trust right now was Zach.
  Nearby rock vaporized instantly with explosive force, creating a hellish chamber of radiation and overwhelming pressure several hundred yards in diameter.
  The Dutch have never forgotten how desperately they fought during eight hellish days, and the veterans can never forget the kindness and generosity of the people who shared what little food they had, and tended their wounds.
  But, in the immediate aftermath of this hellish disaster, I don't know how long the American reporters are going to stay or how long the Arab reporters are going to stay.
  Come to think of it, there could hardly be a better theme for Rome than heaven and hell - it's a city of heavenly buildings, art and ancient ruins, but it suffers from hellish traffic and endless crowds.
  In a way that makes this job even harder than some of the hellish jobs I've had in the past.
  Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span.
  Synonyms
  horrible, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, vile, foul, abominable, appalling, atrocious, horrendous, frightful

adverbˈheliSHˈhɛlɪʃ

British informal

as submodifier Extremely (used for emphasis)
it was hellish expensive
Example sentencesExamples
- The horse is a hefty great beast at 17.1 hands and hellish strong.
- It's always been done this way, it would be hellish complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo.
- A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week.
- And as they will attest, once information is out there it's hellish tricky to take it back.
Synonyms
very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, tremendously, immensely, hugely, intensely, acutely, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly

单词	hellish
释义	Definition of hellish in English: hellish adjective ˈhɛlɪʃˈhɛlɪʃ 1Of or like hell. an unearthly, hellish landscape Example sentencesExamples War is hell, but can be made more or less hellish. I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape. He describes their hellish home of hidden evil upon evil, windy wolf-dens, cliffs, and skies of dark air and black rain. This promises to be a hard-hitting play from a news correspondent filing reports from a hellish war zone. The air he inhaled transformed into a hellish inferno, scorching his lungs. A fireworks explosion set off a huge blaze in central Lima late on Saturday, killing at least 240 people and turning a busy shopping street into a hellish scene. Then the Devil suddenly turned and looked straight in our direction and pointed right at us and started laughing a ghastly hellish devil laugh. A hellish landscape of fire, smoke and death formed a backdrop for a bunch of kids a long way from home who were just doing their job. I wouldn't want her mangy little dog to suffer an inferno of hellish fury. Overhead, a blinding red pulse burned bright before hurtling into the wall and bringing down rocks and fire in a hellish burst of light and sound and crushing pressure. Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld. Several blinding nuclear blasts ensued, covering the rock with dust and flame in a hellish inferno. They marched all day, passing through a hellish, wrecked landscape. The grim reality of this hellish landscape pervaded every aspect of work and leisure. They emerged on stage bathed in a hellish red glow and launched into a set astonishing in its ferociousness and intensity. It seemed to stretch on for miles, going slightly uphill into a long corner then heading up, and away to whatever hellish dimension existed as the faeries' foul home. And just what are we looking for in this hellish landscape? In time, the hellish landscape of the high South lost its fearful interest for Adriana and became monotonous, a distance to be covered with a minimum of pain. The firelight flickered over the daemon's armor, giving him an extremely hellish quality. But the tattoo drew her focus to the middle of the design and there the two devilish eyes stared down upon her with hellish fire. Synonyms infernal, Hadean devilish, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, satanic, demonic, demoniac, demoniacal, Mephistophelian, ungodly, evil, wicked Greek Mythology Stygian rare cacodemonic 1.1informal Extremely difficult or unpleasant. it had been a hellish week Example sentencesExamples Nearby rock vaporized instantly with explosive force, creating a hellish chamber of radiation and overwhelming pressure several hundred yards in diameter. The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country. I know these people are hellish to deal with, but have you stressed to them that letting their dog run free is against the law rather than just being a nuisance to you? The wind increased blow harder and harder in a hellish gale that never seemed to cease. We know that there are many beings in the world today living in hellish states and suffering terribly every moment of their lives. It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock. Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span. Come to think of it, there could hardly be a better theme for Rome than heaven and hell - it's a city of heavenly buildings, art and ancient ruins, but it suffers from hellish traffic and endless crowds. The description of his journey includes sequences in Swindon's town centre, around the station and in the station itself, which is transformed in Christopher's mind into a place of hellish noise and confusion. The answer came as the wickedly bitter temperatures turned the freezing rain into a hellish mix of snow and hail. In a way that makes this job even harder than some of the hellish jobs I've had in the past. She was lost in a horrible, hellish world, and the only person she could trust right now was Zach. The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, hellish in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art. Isolation is an evil feeling, and I've had some hellish weekends lately. It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare. Shocking, infernal, hellish, unendingly nasty - it's all sounding more and more like my last vacation in Paris. The Dutch have never forgotten how desperately they fought during eight hellish days, and the veterans can never forget the kindness and generosity of the people who shared what little food they had, and tended their wounds. If you've ever seen a more terrifying beard than this, then you are most certainly a liar, because there is no beard more frightening than this hellish monstrosity. Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined. But, in the immediate aftermath of this hellish disaster, I don't know how long the American reporters are going to stay or how long the Arab reporters are going to stay. Synonyms horrible, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, vile, foul, abominable, appalling, atrocious, horrendous, frightful adverb ˈhɛlɪʃˈhɛlɪʃ British informal as submodifier Extremely (used for emphasis) it was hellish expensive Example sentencesExamples A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week. It's always been done this way, it would be hellish complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo. The horse is a hefty great beast at 17.1 hands and hellish strong. And as they will attest, once information is out there it's hellish tricky to take it back. Synonyms very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, tremendously, immensely, hugely, intensely, acutely, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly Derivatives hellishly adverb ˈhɛlɪʃ(ə)liˈhɛlɪʃli as submodifier a hellishly dull holiday Example sentencesExamples I do it all the time, when I want to transplant a sentence from one location to another in one of my hellishly long essays. And I would bet anything that what they are counting down now is the number of days left before winter, cloud cover and hellishly difficult terrain reduce the chances of successful ground operations. The political balance between the two tribes gives us a labyrinthine civil service, two governments and hellishly high taxes. On the contrary, it is a hellishly brutal place where despotic cruelty, casual violence, ready sex and the relentless pursuit of blood feuds are the order of the day. It's hellishly difficult and no fun in practice. hellishness noun Her portrayal of urban poverty, including harsh glimpses of racial stratification, sufficiently suggests the hellishness of Smith's everyday world. Example sentencesExamples What they could not have guessed when they made their historic observations of Venus was the inhospitable hellishness of the planet's landscape. He had no illusions about the hellishness of war. He gives a speech about why he loves being in the Marines, but it's delivered against the backdrop of an apocalyptic oil fire, and his words carry less weight than the hellishness around him. Yesterday had the potential for hellishness, but somehow managed to turn out almost as perfect as it could have been instead. Rhymes embellish, relish Definition of hellish in US English: hellish adjectiveˈheliSHˈhɛlɪʃ 1Of or like hell. an unearthly, hellish landscape Example sentencesExamples Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld. I wouldn't want her mangy little dog to suffer an inferno of hellish fury. They emerged on stage bathed in a hellish red glow and launched into a set astonishing in its ferociousness and intensity. In time, the hellish landscape of the high South lost its fearful interest for Adriana and became monotonous, a distance to be covered with a minimum of pain. This promises to be a hard-hitting play from a news correspondent filing reports from a hellish war zone. Several blinding nuclear blasts ensued, covering the rock with dust and flame in a hellish inferno. The air he inhaled transformed into a hellish inferno, scorching his lungs. The grim reality of this hellish landscape pervaded every aspect of work and leisure. I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape. But the tattoo drew her focus to the middle of the design and there the two devilish eyes stared down upon her with hellish fire. He describes their hellish home of hidden evil upon evil, windy wolf-dens, cliffs, and skies of dark air and black rain. Then the Devil suddenly turned and looked straight in our direction and pointed right at us and started laughing a ghastly hellish devil laugh. They marched all day, passing through a hellish, wrecked landscape. War is hell, but can be made more or less hellish. It seemed to stretch on for miles, going slightly uphill into a long corner then heading up, and away to whatever hellish dimension existed as the faeries' foul home. Overhead, a blinding red pulse burned bright before hurtling into the wall and bringing down rocks and fire in a hellish burst of light and sound and crushing pressure. A hellish landscape of fire, smoke and death formed a backdrop for a bunch of kids a long way from home who were just doing their job. The firelight flickered over the daemon's armor, giving him an extremely hellish quality. And just what are we looking for in this hellish landscape? A fireworks explosion set off a huge blaze in central Lima late on Saturday, killing at least 240 people and turning a busy shopping street into a hellish scene. Synonyms infernal, hadean 1.1informal Extremely difficult or unpleasant. it had been a hellish week Example sentencesExamples The wind increased blow harder and harder in a hellish gale that never seemed to cease. Shocking, infernal, hellish, unendingly nasty - it's all sounding more and more like my last vacation in Paris. I know these people are hellish to deal with, but have you stressed to them that letting their dog run free is against the law rather than just being a nuisance to you? The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country. We know that there are many beings in the world today living in hellish states and suffering terribly every moment of their lives. The answer came as the wickedly bitter temperatures turned the freezing rain into a hellish mix of snow and hail. The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, hellish in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art. It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock. Isolation is an evil feeling, and I've had some hellish weekends lately. The description of his journey includes sequences in Swindon's town centre, around the station and in the station itself, which is transformed in Christopher's mind into a place of hellish noise and confusion. It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare. Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined. If you've ever seen a more terrifying beard than this, then you are most certainly a liar, because there is no beard more frightening than this hellish monstrosity. She was lost in a horrible, hellish world, and the only person she could trust right now was Zach. Nearby rock vaporized instantly with explosive force, creating a hellish chamber of radiation and overwhelming pressure several hundred yards in diameter. The Dutch have never forgotten how desperately they fought during eight hellish days, and the veterans can never forget the kindness and generosity of the people who shared what little food they had, and tended their wounds. But, in the immediate aftermath of this hellish disaster, I don't know how long the American reporters are going to stay or how long the Arab reporters are going to stay. Come to think of it, there could hardly be a better theme for Rome than heaven and hell - it's a city of heavenly buildings, art and ancient ruins, but it suffers from hellish traffic and endless crowds. In a way that makes this job even harder than some of the hellish jobs I've had in the past. Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span. Synonyms horrible, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, vile, foul, abominable, appalling, atrocious, horrendous, frightful adverbˈheliSHˈhɛlɪʃ British informal as submodifier Extremely (used for emphasis) it was hellish expensive Example sentencesExamples The horse is a hefty great beast at 17.1 hands and hellish strong. It's always been done this way, it would be hellish complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo. A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week. And as they will attest, once information is out there it's hellish tricky to take it back. Synonyms very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, tremendously, immensely, hugely, intensely, acutely, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly
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