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UK
/hˈɛlɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈhɛɫɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛɫɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(informal) very unpleasant
hellish weather
stop that god-awful racket -
extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
satanic cruelty
diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils
a fiendish despot
infernal instruments of war
fires lit up a diabolic scene
hellish torture
something demonic in him--something that could be cruel
unholy grimaces
How To Use hellish In A Sentence
- He paints a hellish picture in which sea and sky become indistinguishable and the men battle for survival.
- It must be hellish for people who care about the teams on a personal level, because no matter how good your school's team is, they have to win six games in a row against the best teams in the country, amped up to play you.
- He suddenly missed the hellish heat and the blinding sun of Orlando.
- He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp.
- Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
- The early-evening fog was rolling in on a hellish breeze. Three Stages of Amazement
- Don't listen to him - he reckons that every city is a hellish cesspit of hatred and evil.
- Scientists have found many planets like HD 209458 b – huge gas giants that orbit hazardously close to their stars and have hellishly hot, poisonous atmospheres.
- The up arrows are illuminated in white for angelic heaven and the down arrows glower red for hellish damnation!
- I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias. The Thirty-Nine Steps