HELLISH, HELLISHNESS
ADJECTIVES
► ACHERONIAN relating to or suggestive of the underworld of the ancient Greeks, or the mythical river Acheron; infernal, hellish; dark, gloomy → 1849 chiefly literary usage
► ACHERONTICAL infernal, hellish; dark, gloomy → 1610 obs.
► AVERNAL hellish, infernal → 1548
► HELL-BENDING hellish, arduous → 1890 Amer. sl.
► STYGIAN infernal, hellish → 1601
► TARTAREAN hellish, like hell → 1806
► TARTAREOUS pert., to Tartarus; infernal, hellish, very wicked → 1619 obs.
NOUNS
► TOPHETISM hellishness → 1859
NOUNS – PERSON
► PANDEMONIAC a devilish or hellish person → 1923
► SATAN a term of abhorrence applied to a person; a diabolical person; a detested, devilish or hellish person → 1596
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