hellacious

hel·la·cious

adjective \ˌhe-ˈlā-shəs\

Definition of HELLACIOUS

1

: exceptionally powerful or violent

2

: remarkably good

3

: extremely difficult

4

: extraordinarily large

— hel·la·cious·ly adverb

Examples of HELLACIOUS

1. Traffic is hellacious this time of day.
2. <the hellacious heat was more than we could bear>

Origin of HELLACIOUS

hell + -acious (as in audacious)

First Known Use: 1929

Related to HELLACIOUS

Synonyms

acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, intense, intensive, keen, profound, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent

Antonyms

light, moderate, soft

Related Words

accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened; emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified; stressed; exhaustive, thorough; harsh, rigorous, severe

Near Antonyms

feeble, weak; shallow, superficial; moderated, qualified; alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down); abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued

Rhymes with HELLACIOUS

audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious