hell
Plural: hells
Noun
- any place of pain and turmoil
- "the hell of battle"
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- "war is hell"
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; - John Milton; ; -Dr. Johnson
- "Hell is paved with good intentions"
- (religion) the world of the dead; -Theognis
- violent and excited activity
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- A place for gambling.
- An extremely hot place.
- Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
Name
- A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
Intj
- Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
- Used to emphasize.
- Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
Adv
- Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
- Very; used to emphasize strongly.
Verb
Verb Forms: helled, helling, hells
- To behave in a raucous or boisterous manner.
- To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.
- To hurry, rush.
- To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.
- To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).
- To pour.
Examples
- After a disastrous Q-without-U play, his rack seemed to HELL with frustration.
- callback hell; <table> hell; <div> hell
- Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!
- He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.
- He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.
- Hell, yeah!
- I went through hell to get home today.
- I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
- May you rot in hell!
- My new boss is making my job a hell.
- Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
- That steep staircase is hell on my knees.
- That was hell good!
- They're hell sexy.
- What the hell is wrong with you?!
- You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.
Synonyms
blaze, Hades, hell on earth, hellhole, infernal region, Inferno, inferno, nether region, netherworld, perdition, pit, Scheol, sin, snake pit, the pits, underworld, afterlife, hella
Antonyms
Heaven, heaven
Scrabble Score: 7
hell: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhell: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hell: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary