hellish

English

Etymology

From hell +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛlɪʃ
Hyphenation: hell‧ish

Adjective

hellish (comparative more hellish, superlative most hellish)

infernal, related or similar to hell
- 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [F3], recto:
  Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]
(hyperbolic) causing great pain, discomfort or distress
Synonyms: awful, horrible, infernal, nightmarish, terrible

I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

Antonyms

heavenly

Related terms

hell

Translations

causing pain, discomfort or distress

Arabic: جَحِيمِيّ (jaḥīmiyy), جَهَنَّمِيّ (jahannamiyy)
Armenian: դժոխային (hy) (džoxayin)
Belarusian: пяке́льны (pjakjélʹny)
Bulgarian: а́дски (bg) (ádski), пъ́клен (bg) (pǎ́klen)
Czech: pekelný (cs)
Danish: helvedes, infernalsk
Dutch: hels (nl)
Finnish: helvetillinen (fi)
French: infernal (fr)
German: höllisch (de)
Italian: infernale (it)
Macedonian: пеколен (pekolen), адски (adski)
Malayalam: നരക (naraka)
Norman: înfèrna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: helvetes, infernalsk
Polish: piekielny (pl)
Portuguese: infernal (pt)
Romanian: infernal (ro)
Russian: а́дский (ru) (ádskij), а́довый (ru) (ádovyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̀клен

Roman: pàklen (sh)
Slovak: pekelný
Slovene: peklenski
Spanish: infernal (es)
Swedish: helvetisk (sv), infernalisk (sv)
Ukrainian: пеке́льний (pekélʹnyj)
Urdu: جَہَنَّمی (jahannamī)

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