Hellish

Definitions: Hellish

Hellish

Adjective

1. Very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket".

2. Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces".

Date "hellish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Hellish

Synonyms: beastly (adj), demonic (adj), diabolic (adj), diabolical (adj), fiendish (adj), god-awful (adj), infernal (adj), satanic (adj), unholy (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hell	Adjective: hellish, infernal, stygian.
Malevolence	Fiendish, fiendlike; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran.
Vice	Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hellish

English words defined with "hellish": Hell-haunted, Helly ♦ Infernal stone ♦ Stygian ♦ Tartareous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hellish": Devil's Candle ♦ Illumination. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There's a Retail Rodeo special on all bulk candy on aisle 4. Ghouls and goblins, witches and warlocks, wandering these aisles day after day, I put a Halloween curse on your hellish heads. (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Hellish Relish: Notecards (reference) Murderous Memories: One Woman's Hellish Battle to Save Herself (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Cackle; cackling; evil; sinister; Mephistophelean; accursed; devil; cursed; damnable; damned; demoniac; demonic; detestable; diabolic; diabolical; execrable; fiendish; hellborn; hellish; hell; infernal; iniquitous; nefarious; satanic; serpentine; unhallow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Nicholas Breton	Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Hellish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "Hellish" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	95.35%	82	36,594
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.33%	2	245,945
Noun (common)	2.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	86	N/A

Expression using "hellish": hellish noise. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "hellish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i skëterrshëm, djallëzor (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, satanic). (various references)

Arabic		‏جهنمي (infernal, stygian), ‏شيطاني (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, impish, infernal, playful, satanic, serpentine, swinging, unholy). (various references)

Bulgarian		адски (fiendish, infernal, infernally, plutonian, sulphurous, tartarean), пъклен (damnable). (various references)

Czech		hrozný (abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, damnable, dire, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grim, hateful, horrible, mortal, terrible, terrific, tremendous), strašný (awful, chronic, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, hairy, hideous, hopeless, horrible, horrific, terrible, tremendous), pekelný (infernal, ungodly, unholy). (various references)

Farsi		جهنمی . (various references)

Finnish		helvetillinen (infernal). (various references)

French		diabolique, atroce (heinous). (various references)

German		höllisch (fiendish, hellishly, infernal, infernally, purgatorial). (various references)

Greek		καταχθόνιοσ (infernal, stygian), διαβολικόσ (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, impish). (various references)

Hebrew		שט� י (devilish, diabolic, fiendish, infernal, satanic), �'י�"� ומי (infernal), � ורא (bloody, damned, dire, dread, fearful, frightful, shocking, terrible, terrific, unholy). (various references)

Hungarian		pokoli (deuced, fiendish, helluva, infernal, stygian), ördögi (daemonic, demoniacal, demonic, devil, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, satanic). (various references)

Italian		infernale (awful, devilish, infernal). (various references)

Manx		iurinagh (devil, inhabitant of hell). (various references)

Pig Latin		ellishhay

Portuguese		pessoa endiabrada. (various references)

Romanian		infernal (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, infernal), diabolic (demoniac, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, diabolically, fiendish, infernal). (various references)

Russian		адский (damned, helluva, infernal, sulphurous, Tartarean). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		paklen (devilish, infernal, tartarean). (various references)

Spanish		infernal (infernal, underworld). (various references)

Swedish		helvetisk (helvetic, infernal), infernalisk (infernal), djävulsk (daemonic, demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, satanical). (various references)

Thai		ชั่วร้าย (black, egregious, evil, fiendish, rapacious, sinful). (various references)

Turkish		korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), cehennemi, cehennem gibi (infernal, scalding hot), şeytanca (cloven-hoofed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, malicious, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, satanic, slily). (various references)

Ukranian		пекельний (infernal, sulfurous, sulphurous), диявольський (demoniacal, demonic, fiendish, satanic, satanical). (various references)

Vietnamese		tối tăm; như ma quỷ khủng khiếp; ghê tởm; xấu xa. (various references)

Welsh		uffernol (infernal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hellish": hellishly, hellishness, hellishnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hellish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deeplish, Hadlich, halbish, Heelis, heliz, hellas, hellich, helpis, Herlihy, Holloch, melluish. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hellish" (pronounced he"lish)
4	-e" l i sh	embellish, relish.
3	-l i sh	accomplish, demolish, devilish, establish, ghoulish, girlish, polish, publish, purplish, reestablish, smallish, stylish, ticklish.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-h-i-l-l-s"
	-2 letters: heils, hells, hills, lisle, shell, shiel, shill.
	-3 letters: elhi, ells, hehs, heil, hell, hies, hill, ills, isle, leis, lies, sell, sill.
	-4 letters: ell, els, heh, hes, hie, his, ill, lei, lie, lis, sei, sel, she, shh.
	-5 letters: eh, el, es, he, hi, is, li, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-h-i-l-l-s"
	+2 letters: hellishly, shellfish, shlemiehl.
	+3 letters: halophiles, sheathbill, shillelagh, shlemiehls.
	+4 letters: hellishness, sheathbills, shellfishes, shillelaghs.
	+5 letters: philadelphus, philhellenes, shellfishery.
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