hellish
Like the underworld
Hellish means resembling or characteristic of hell—extremely unpleasant, torturous, or difficult: The traffic was hellish.
We had a hellish time getting the project finished.
The word suggests suffering beyond normal complaint, though it's often used hyperbolically for everyday frustrations.
Of the underworld
- satanicExtremely wicked or cruel
- demonicOf or like devils
- diabolicalExtremely wicked or cruel
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
underworld · brimstone · perdition · netherworld · Tartarus · abyss · Lucifer · Beelzebub
Intensely painful or distressing
- excruciatingCausing extreme suffering
- tormentingCausing severe distress
- unbearableImpossible to endure
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
misery · torment · anguish · pain · ordeal · affliction · punishing · brutal
Depleting one's stamina
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- laboriousRequiring considerable effort
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
punishing · demanding · taxing · onerous · tough · difficult · unrelenting · draining
Extremely hot, uncomfortably so
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- blazingBurning very brightly
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
inferno · furnace · roasting · broiling · suffocating · stifling · unbearable · oppressive
infernal
Of the underworld
- satanicExtremely wicked or cruel
- demonicOf or like devils
- diabolicalExtremely wicked or cruel
Hades · underworld · brimstone · perdition · netherworld · Tartarus · abyss · Lucifer · Beelzebub · Mephistopheles
agonizing
Intensely painful or distressing
- excruciatingCausing extreme suffering
- tormentingCausing severe distress
- unbearableImpossible to endure
suffering · misery · torment · anguish · pain · ordeal · affliction · punishing · brutal · cruel
exhausting
Depleting one's stamina
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
- laboriousRequiring considerable effort
strenuous · punishing · demanding · taxing · onerous · tough · difficult · unrelenting · draining · brutal
sweltering
Extremely hot, uncomfortably so
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- blazingBurning very brightly
fiery · inferno · furnace · roasting · broiling · suffocating · stifling · unbearable · oppressive · scorched
terrifying
Evoking extreme fear
- horrificExtremely shocking and dreadful
- dreadfulCausing great fear or suffering
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
macabre · monstrous · frightening · eerie · grotesque · sinister · haunting · chilling · unsettling · surreal
- Demonsdemons, demon, devils, devil, fiends
- infernaldemonic, diabolical, satanic, devilish, fiendish
- temperaturehot, cold, warm, cool, freezing
- exhaustingdraining, taxing, tiring, exhausting, fatiguing
- FaustianMephistopheles, Faust, Goethe, devil pact, Dr. Faustus
- grotesquegrotesquerie, grotesque, grotesquery, deformity, freaks
hellishheavenly
Divinely pleasant or blissful
wonderful · delightful · blissful · pleasant · idyllic
- hellish landscapesNightmarish, tormented scenery