HELLS Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

hells

noun

plural of hell

as in nightmares

a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness picking cotton under the hot summer sun was hell

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as in messes

a state in which everything is out of order all hell broke loose when the jury's verdict was announced

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Recent Examples of hells An episode of septicemia, with its hells and paradises, its nightmares and hallucinations, transforms Borges into a story writer. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026 The Avici hell is the lowest and most terrible level of the eight hot hells of Buddhism, where those who’ve committed serious crimes (like parricide) must face constant suffering. — Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Smith stays largely mum on the news of the day, be that Kirk’s killing, or ICE raids, or whatever hells await in the coming weeks. — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026 The protagonist's youth doesn't defang the story, as Silent Hill f wastes no time thrusting Hinako and her friends into their personal hells. — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025 All’s well that metal-as-hells well. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025

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Noun

One of those nightmares centers on whether the execution team will be able to establish an IV line.

— Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
With every whimper, sigh, howl, bark and head tilt, these dogs create an empathetic portrayal of a highly intelligent creature that has been through battle and has the scars (and nightmares) to prove it.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of nightmares

Noun

Rebecca and Verity, which stars Johnson, are also about a new, naïve lover entering the home of a bad man with a wife hidden in his house of horrors.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Life goes on, in all its quirks and intimacies and frivolities, no matter what horrors might lurk on the horizon.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of horrors

Noun

There are few harsher agonies than waiting, and throughout the great expanse of the CPKC ‘International’ Grand Prix presented by Rolex at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’, two riders felt that in very different ways.

— Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Sadly, in discouraging all the phantom agonies, FIFA inadvertently seems to have done away with the equally farcical phenomenon that is Magic Spray®.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of agonies

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

Definition of jumbles

Noun

Some residents said hope is elusive given the island’s litany of miseries – from natural disasters to a bankrupt government to a financial control board that manages funding for infrastructure.

— Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Cyclospora, an intestinal parasite, has sickened thousands of people and hospitalized hundreds with explosive diarrhea, painful cramping, or other gastrointestinal miseries.

— Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of miseries

Noun

But until then, Kyiv needs to get ahead of Moscow and stop its ability to wreak aerial havoc.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
Thousands sheltered on Monday in evacuation centres in the Thai capital, parts of it still flooded after havoc brought by intense weekend rain, while swelling reservoirs in an eastern province triggered orders for more to leave their homes.

— Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026

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