HECK Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

heck

noun

ˈhek

Definition of heck

as in hell

a state in which everything is out of order it looks like heck in that boy's bedroom

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Recent Examples of heck History shows that Sirianni has every reason to sit on the hot seat unless the Eagles somehow get on one heck of a heater. — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026 But putting yourself out there platonically can feel a heck of a lot like online dating. — Grey Battle, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2026 The fact the French President met with the highest representatives from both squads and there has been no change in the status of the game suggests this thing is going to happen come heck or high rioting. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026 These double-strap Mary Jane ballet sneakers look a lot like a pair from Onitsuka Tiger but cost a heck of a lot less. — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for heck

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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

Last year, business leaders reached out to the mayor’s team to express their fears that the City Council’s plan to raise the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 per hour would wreak financial havoc on the city’s hospitality industry.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile, the war has wreaked global havoc with no end in sight.

— S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of havoc

Noun

If Uncle Sam does not change course, America’s unsustainable fiscal mess will result in adverse economic, national security, foreign relations, and domestic tranquility consequences.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026
Andrew Schaefer, a forty-two-year-old father in Orlando, Florida, who helps people out of tax messes, also likes to wager on elections.

— Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of mess

Noun

Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026

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