Synonyms for hellish
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hel-ish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛl ɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for hellish Other synonyms for the word hellish
Définition of hellish
Origin :- 1520s, from hell + -ish. Related: Hellishly; hellishness. Earlier in same sense were helli "helly" (late 12c.); hellen "hellish, infernal" (c.1200), with -en (2); and Old English hellic.
- adj fiendish; unpleasant
- Were they building their city from the sand of the desert, these hellish glaciers?
- Extract from : « Spawn of the Comet » by Harold Thompson Rich
- After some minutes of the hellish tumult she had asked to see the Director.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- Above her head was the roar of tempest, and the vivid, hellish light of the storm.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Others in the cutter had noted the incident of the hellish fight.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
- And do you know what I've been doing during all this hellish period?
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various
- Pouring upon them the hellish vengeance of wounded wild beasts!
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- Some foamed at the mouth and tore themselves in hellish agonies.
- Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
- Then it came to me—the last horrible revelation in this hellish plot.
- Extract from : « The Hand in the Dark » by Arthur J. Rees
- A hellish thought at this moment arose in the mind of the outlaw.
- Extract from : « Wood Rangers » by Mayne Reid
- He has been himself the victim of some hellish plot,—for a plot there has been.
- Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby
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