Hellish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hellish \Hell"ish\, a.
     Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant;
     wicked; detestable; diabolical. "Hellish hate." --Milton. --
     {Hell"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Hell"ish*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hellish
       adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful
              racket" [syn: {beastly}, {god-awful}]
       2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting
          hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be
          cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical
          sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish
          despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war";
          "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: {demonic}, {diabolic},
           {diabolical}, {fiendish}, {infernal}, {satanic}, {unholy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "hellish":
     Acherontic, Draconian, Lethean, Mephistophelian, Plutonian,
     Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, anarchic, angry, animal,
     anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial,
     bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, blustering, blusterous,
     blustery, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic,
     chaotic, chthonian, chthonic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed,
     damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike,
     devil-like, devilish, diabolic, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious,
     fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, ghoulish,
     hellborn, infernal, infuriate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, mad,
     mindless, murderous, ogreish, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac,
     pandemonic, purgatorial, raging, ravening, raving, rip-roaring,
     ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage,
     sharkish, slavering, storming, stormy, subhuman, sulfurous,
     tempestuous, troublous, truculent, tumultuous, turbulent,
     unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhuman, uproarious, vicious,
     wild, wolfish