hell
Place of damnation
Hell is the place of eternal punishment in many religious traditions, where the wicked suffer after death: The sermon described the torments of hell.
By extension, hell describes any place or situation of misery: War is hell.
The commute was hell today.
As an exclamation, hell expresses surprise, frustration, or emphasis: What the hell is going on?
Hell, I don't care.
Common expressions include all hell broke loose (chaos erupted), hell to pay (serious consequences), when hell freezes over (never), a snowball's chance in hell (no chance at all), and go to hell (a curse or dismissal).
Mild expletive
- heckMild frustrated exclamation
- darnRepair by weaving
- blastSudden forceful burst
- bloodyGore-covered or British curse
blimey · crikey · drat · dang · shoot · fudge · shucks · gosh
Sustained experience of distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- painBodily or emotional distress
misery · punishment · fire · burning · weeping · despair · woe · affliction
Savagely harsh or severe
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- punishingExtremely taxing or severe
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- relentlessContinuing without pause
excruciating · unbearable · nightmarish · harrowing · hellacious · infernal · miserable · torturous
damn
Mild expletive
bloody · blimey · crikey · drat · dang · shoot · fudge · shucks · gosh · doggone
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
pain · misery · punishment · fire · burning · weeping · despair · woe · affliction · tribulation
brutal
Savagely harsh or severe
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- punishingExtremely taxing or severe
- mercilessShowing no clemency
relentless · excruciating · unbearable · nightmarish · harrowing · hellacious · infernal · miserable · torturous · agonizing
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- Good and Evilgood, evil, good versus evil, virtue and vice, morality
- worldsearth, planet, realm, kingdom, dimension
- Afterlife ArtLast Judgment, Divine Comedy, Sistine Chapel, Inferno, Paradise
- Christian cosmologyheaven, God, angels, demons, Trinity
hellorder
Methodical arrangement or request
orderliness · method · system · organization · structure
- what the hellExclamation of disbelief
- go to hellHostile dismissal curse
- goes to hellRapidly worsens beyond repair
- like hellEmphatic denial or intensity
- hell yeahEmphatic informal yes
- gone to hellSeverely degraded beyond repair
hellish, hells, hellfire, hellcat, hellhound, hellishly, hellishness, hellebore, hellbender