Hell

Proper noun

 * 1) In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
 * 2)  The place where devils live and where sinners are punished after death
 * May you rot in hell!
 * 1) * 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
 * Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
 * 1) * 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 * Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

Synonyms

 * Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld

Antonyms

 * heaven

Noun

 * 1)  A place or situation of great suffering in life
 * My new boss is making my job a hell.
 * 1) * 1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
 * There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
 * 1)  A place for gambling
 * 2) * 1907, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
 * ... the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; ...
 * 1) An extremely hot place
 * You don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
 * I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
 * What the hell is wrong with you?
 * He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
 * He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.

Derived terms

 * as hell
 * forty minutes of hell
 * hell and half of Georgia
 * hell on earth
 * hell on wheels
 * hella
 * hellagood
 * hell-fire
 * hell for leather
 * hell hath no fury like a woman scorned


 * like hell
 * the hell
 * the hell out of
 * the hell with it
 * hellish
 * hell on wheels
 * hell’s delight
 * hellspawn
 * living hell
 * to hell with
 * what the hell

Interjection

 * 1)  Used to express negative discontent
 * Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
 * 1)  Used to emphasize
 *  Hell, yeah!

Adjectives for Hell
pitiless; multitudinous; impious; dismal; high-vaulted; yawning; gratuitous; incipient; tangible; monster-teeming; ever-burning; social; inevitable; fabled; jealous; fearsome; inextricable; earth-consuming.

Verbs for Hell
boil in—; burn in—; chain in—; condemn to—; damn to—; deliver from—; descend to—; doom to—; dwell in—; embark for—; escape—; lead to—; parch in—; plunge into—; punish in—; purify in—; sink in—; torment in—; torture in—; —breaks loose; —devours; —flames; —gapes; —scorches; shadows; —threatens.

Thesaurus
Abaddon, Acheron, Babel, Dis, Erebus, Gehenna, Hades, Pandemonium, Sheol, Styx, Tartarus, Tophet, Torrid Zone, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, bedlam, betting house, betting parlor, blazes, bottomless pit, bowels, cacophony, cage, casino, castigation, censure, chaos, clawing, confusion of tongues, coop, crib, criticism, cruciation, crucifixion, deep space, deeps, depths, enclosure, equator, flat, furnace, gambling den, gambling hall, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, gaping depths, hades, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, infernal pit, infernal regions, inferno, joint, laceration, lancination, limbo, lower world, martyrdom, misery, nether world, netherworld, nightmare, noise, ordeal, outer space, oven, pain, pandemonium, passion, pen, penfold, perdition, persecution, pinfold, pit, place of confinement, poolroom, pound, purgatory, rack, racket, reprimand, scolding, sporting house, static, steam bath, subtropics, suffering, torment, torture, trial, tropics, underworld, unfathomed deeps, unknown depths, upbraiding, wassail

Alternative forms

 * Hell

Etymology
From helle:, from  hel:, hell:, helle: <  <. Cognate hel:,  Hölle:,  hel:. Also related to the Hel: of Germanic mythology. See also.

Proper noun

 * Arabic: ,
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܓܗܢܐ (gehanā’)
 * Hebrew: גהנא (gehanā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:, пъкъл
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: नरक,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: inferno
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , naraka
 * Kazakh:, тозақ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: infernum


 * Latvian:, pekle
 * Lithuanian: pragaras
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: नर्क (narka)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Norse: helviti
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: iad
 * Russian:, , , геенна огненная
 * Sanskrit: नरक
 * Saterland Frisian: Hälle
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ifrinn
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Roman: pakao, ad , džehenem
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: дӯзах, ҷаҳаннам
 * Tamil: நரகம் (narakam)
 * Telugu: నరకం (narakaM)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu:, نرک
 * Vietnamese: địa ngục
 * Volapük: höl
 * West Frisian: hel

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: inferno
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 地獄 (じごく, jigoku)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: pragaras
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (jahannam)


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Saterland Frisian: Hälle
 * Scottish Gaelic: Ifrinn
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: pakao, ad
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: నరకం (narakaM)
 * Volapük: höl
 * West Frisian:

Noun

 * 1) skewer
 * 2) icicle

Adjective

 * 1) tender

Adjective

 * 1) clear, bright, light

Noun

 * 1) luck

Etymology
Compare to halo:, an effect of light, and hell:, German for "light".

Noun

 * 1) hell