Definition of hellish
: of, resembling, or befitting hell; broadly : terrible
hellishly
adverbhellishness
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of hellish in a Sentence
We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
Recent Examples of hellish from the Web
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Some cultural trends like texting and social media are just objectively great and also hellish at the same time.
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In the end, everyone will be a little more comfortable in what is an inevitably hellish experience to begin with.
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Hellish status quo ante Mud and debris sifted from the rail beds overhead onto the sidewalks below.
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Within 30 minutes, it had been completely engulfed in a hellish inferno.
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Pain in my left shoulder and arm that had awakened me shortly after 2 a.m. on that hellish day had dissipated.
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People in the club that morning described a hellish scene lit, almost as if in slow motion, by a strobe light.
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Doom was eventually published by Fantasy Flight Games, which used it as a basis for Descent, before quietly shelving hellish sci-fi in favor of its swords ’n’ sorcery IP.
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Planning a wedding — as everyone will tell you the second you get engaged — is a hellish ordeal.
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First Known Use of hellish
circa 1530
HELLISH Defined for English Language Learners
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: very bad, unpleasant, or shocking
HELLISH Defined for Kids
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: extremely bad hellish violence
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