GEHENNA Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

Gehenna

noun

gi-ˈhe-nə

Definition of Gehenna

as in nightmare

a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness the depression that has enshrouded her since the death of her husband is a Gehenna from which she may never be released

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as in hell

the place of punishment for the wicked after death in a fire-and-brimstone sermon, the evangelist warned those assembled that they faced the fires of Gehenna if they failed to repent

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Recent Examples of Gehenna In Memoriam looks at these vampires and how they’ve been thrust into the limelight due to the Gehenna War. — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025 The ball arcs toward Gehenna, and Kemp’s hyper narrator Naruto-runs off the page, trying kawaiily to get under it. — Alexandra Tanner, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025

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Noun

Keeping your porch looking its best will become a maintenance nightmare.

— Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026
Druski played a nightmare birthday girl in another sketch going off on her friend Tina (Veronika Slowikowska) for eating fajitas and wearing a black bodycon dress.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of nightmare

Noun

The face appears on the lower left side of The Last Judgement where the dead are rising from the ground before either ascending to paradise or descending to hell.

— News Desk, Artforum, 5 Nov. 2026
His second, a collaboration with the Times puzzle editor Tracy Bennett, was a hefty Sunday puzzle rife with just-for-the-hell-of-it wordplay.

— New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of hell

Noun

Taking the McDavid minutes away gives us the purest form of agony these defencemen are experiencing at this time.

— Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026
The prisoner in question, Doug Korpi, had also admitted that his agony was an act to journalist Ben Blum, who included the revelation in a broader takedown of the experiment published in 2018.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of agony

Noun

The excellent Benton plays Paulina — the Regina George-esque queen bee at a girls’ high school in 1986 Ghana — with snide stares, biting put-downs and internalized torment.

— Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Garland wasted no time giving Clippers fans something to smile about after an offseason of torment and transformation.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of torment

Noun

However, just one week earlier, she was consumed once again with feelings of horror, seeing her offender in a Cumberland County courtroom.

— Lauren Linder, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
Still, the day was less a rowdy celebration and more, again, grounded in a sense of relief that the horror in the trenches and the suffering everywhere else the war touched were finally over.

— Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of horror

Noun

In some of his videos, smaller animals would suffer prolonged torture and death.

— CBS Minnesota, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Two weeks ago, forensic anthropologists found and identified the remains of nine missing people from La Perla, one of the dictatorship’s largest clandestine detention and torture centers.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of torture

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