hell on earth
Absolute worst experience
Hell on earth describes a situation or place of extreme suffering, misery, or torment—conditions so unbearable they evoke the religious concept of hell.
The phrase emphasizes that such anguish exists in the present, physical world rather than an afterlife: The refugee camp was hell on earth.
It can also describe prolonged personal ordeals: Those years of addiction were hell on earth.
- hellholeExtremely unpleasant place
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- lake of fireFiery underworld punishment realm
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
suffering · anguish · torture · nightmare · oppression · perdition · nuclear fallout · hopelessness · humanitarian crisis · concentration camp · Gehenna · eternal damnation · famine · death camp · mass graves · ethnic cleansing · Tartarus · warzone
hell on earthheaven on earth
Perfect happiness in life
paradise · bliss · utopia · nirvana · seventh heaven
hell on earthutopia
Imagined perfect society
land of milk and honey · promised land · sanctuary · haven · oasis
hell on earthheaven on earth
Perfect happiness in life
kingdom of heaven · God's country · New Jerusalem · celestial realm · divine blessing
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