hell

Roget category 982

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.5. Religious affections
›› 6.5.1. Superhuman beings and regions

#982. Hell

noun

hell, bottomless pit, place of torment — habitation of fallen angels — Pandemonium, Abaddon^†, Domdaniel — jahannan^†, sheol^†.
hell fire — everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation — lake of fire and brimstone — fire that is never quenched — worm that never dies.
purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss.
[Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus [Lat.], Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron^†, Cocytus — infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.
Pluto, Rhadamanthus^†, Erebus [Lat.] — Tophet.

adjective

hellish, infernal, stygian.

phrase

dies irae dies illa [Lat.] — the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night" [Love's Labor's Lost].

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