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Gehenna

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of Gehenna

1 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
Synonyms of Gehenna

agony, hell, horror, misery, murder, nightmare, torment, torture
Words Related to Gehenna

affliction, calvary, cross, curse, ordeal, trial, tribulation

calamity, misfortune, tragedy

gall, thorn

bummer, downer, drag
Near Antonyms of Gehenna

delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, joy, pleasure, recreation

lark, picnic, riot
Antonyms of Gehenna

heaven, paradise

2 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
Synonyms of Gehenna

hell, Pandemonium, perdition, Tophet
Words Related to Gehenna

blazes, inferno

purgatory

hades, netherworld, shades, Tartarus, underworld

Sheol

abyss, pit

fire and brimstone, hellfire
Near Antonyms of Gehenna

glory, happy hunting ground, nirvana, promised land, Valhalla
Antonyms of Gehenna

bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)

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