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

But when strange, dangerous things begin to happen to the sleeping clientele, Penny must uncover the mystery before the nightmare spreads beyond the store.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Practicing football with a two-foot-long, deadly snake inside your helmet is the stuff of nightmares.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of nightmare

Noun

Minamoto Yoshitsune was a strategist who went to hell and took it over, defeating the Oni who guarded hell.

— Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
Goldberg has long been open about attempting to get another Sister Act movie off the ground, with Goldberg even previously listing Palmer as part of her dream cast for Sister Act 3, which has been stuck in development hell for years.

— Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of hell

Noun

Such is the ecstasy, the agony, of judgment, which was never for their benefit.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026
The man with almost no injury was writhing in agony, while the man with a four-inch nail lodged near his brain kept working for six days, not even realizing the nail was there.

— Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of agony

Noun

The inferno that follows, as the betrayer’s dragon sets fire to both armies and then Tumbleton itself, will be rendered with both practical flames and CGI.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
Charming, impulsive, and incapable of leaving a wound alone, Rodney is the sibling most likely to turn a spark into an inferno.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of inferno

Noun

Sochor confessed to the crime, but her body has never been found − still a torment to her family.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 July 2026
By homing in on the psychological torment of winning the crown, the show offers a surprising detour from familiar carnage—while suggesting that disappointment over a seemingly ideal position can be as crushing as a defeat on the battlefield.

— Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Definition of torment

Noun

But an agent may be harmed when its interests are thwarted, its autonomy denied or its existence ended without any pain or misery.

— Andréa Morris, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of misery

Noun

The creative team also has a big vote of confidence in horror mogul Jason Blum, who produced the original film and signed on as a producer of the play.

— William Earl, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Precognition is a live-action sci-fi horror game from Barlow’s Half Mermaid Productions and UK indie outfit Kinetic Publishing.

— Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of horror

Noun

But even those people who dislike the very existence of private schools in big cities would be hard-pressed to make the case that the entire sector collectively makes up a torture chamber.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Her work has included uncovering human trafficking networks, revealing an ISIS underground torture prison in Syria, documenting the war in Ukraine and interviewing senior political figures and world leaders.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of torture

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