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hellish

adjective

hell·​ish ˈhe-lish How to pronounce hellish (audio)
: of, resembling, or befitting hell
broadly : terrible
hellishly adverb
hellishness noun

Example Sentences

We've been having hellish weather lately. The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
Recent Examples on the Web Set in the year 2145, where climate change and solar radiation have melted the polar ice caps and swallowed most of the human world, a biologist and his team navigate a hellish world populated by giant iguanas and prehistoric monsters. Robert English, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2022 Images captured by wildfire cameras showed hellish plumes of smoke created by the fast-moving Mosquito Fire. Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2022 Rather than moving beyond the pathologies of Russian political tradition, the new states of post–post-Sovietude recycle and recombine them into a hellish mash-up of Russian Orthodoxy, Soviet communism, feudalism, and free-market fundamentalism. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022 The hellish location already holds the record for the world's hottest temperature of 134 degrees, set in 1913. Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022 Not that there seems to be much to bring down, since, thanks to the hellish production design of Christopher Glass and Greg Berry, the gritty environs make Gotham City look glamorous by comparison. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022 The fighting took place on the hellish Maeda Escarpment in April 1945. Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2022 Prisoners who have been released from Correctional Colony No. 120 described hellish conditions. New York Times, 29 July 2022 Airports and carriers alike have struggled to cope with the rebound in travel demand since then, which is why traveling this summer (or winter, for our Southern Hemisphere friends) has been downright hellish. Allison Morrow, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1530, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hellish was circa 1530

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