as in underworld
a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream
the shadowy netherworld of all-night raves
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Recent Examples of netherworld
The same netherworld where Julien enjoyed torturing Cortland during his statue days.
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025
All were jarring openings that guided filmgoers into the strange netherworlds tucked away in otherwise normal big cities and small towns.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025
Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.
—Sofia Perez, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025
All were jarring openings that guided filmgoers into the strange netherworlds tucked away in otherwise normal big cities and small towns.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025
Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.
—Sofia Perez, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for netherworld
underworld
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With the exception of one strange, teasingly surreal scene, which conjures the feel of a yakuza thriller set somewhere between a criminal underworld and a metaphysical overworld, Kurosawa sidesteps any hint of the supernatural.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
17 July 2025
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But the story tells how Sedna came to rule over the Inuit underworld.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
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“Netherworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/netherworld. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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