hellishness
State of torment
Hellishness is the quality of being hellish—extremely unpleasant, torturous, or reminiscent of hell.
The word describes conditions of intense suffering or misery: the hellishness of trench warfare, the sheer hellishness of the commute.
It emphasizes not just difficulty but a quality of torment or overwhelming awfulness.
Extremely wicked or cruel
- demonicOf or like devils
- satanicExtremely wicked or cruel
- infernalOf the underworld
- fiendishExtremely cruel or wicked
wicked · malevolent · sinister · nefarious · unholy · depraved · vile · malignant
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
pain · affliction · distress · ordeal · tribulation · woe · despair · grief
Extremely shocking and dreadful
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- appallingInspiring horror or disgust
atrocious · monstrous · terrifying · abominable · hideous · macabre · grotesque · unspeakable
Extremely hot, burning
- blazingBurning very brightly
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
blistering · inferno · furnace · burning · boiling · torrid · broiling · scalding
Bleak and abandoned
- barrenUnable to produce
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- harshUnpleasantly severe or rough
- unforgivingShowing no leniency
forbidding · hostile · uninhabitable · stark · brutal · merciless · punishing · severe
diabolical
Extremely wicked or cruel
fiendish · wicked · malevolent · sinister · nefarious · unholy · depraved · vile · malignant · pernicious
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
torture · pain · affliction · distress · ordeal · tribulation · woe · despair · grief · trauma
horrific
Extremely shocking and dreadful
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
appalling · atrocious · monstrous · terrifying · abominable · hideous · macabre · grotesque · unspeakable · frightful
scorching
Extremely hot, burning
sweltering · blistering · inferno · furnace · burning · boiling · torrid · broiling · scalding · white-hot
desolate
Bleak and abandoned
unforgiving · forbidding · hostile · uninhabitable · stark · brutal · merciless · punishing · severe · grim
- wickednessevil, evilness, wickedness, villainy, malice
hellishnessbliss
Perfect, serene felicity
paradise · heavenliness · blissfulness · ecstasy · rapture
hellishnessheavenliness
Divine or exquisite nature
divineness · blessedness · paradise · sanctity · sacredness
hellishnessblessedness
State of spiritual grace
holiness · sanctity · purity · virtuousness · righteousness