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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HELL'ISH, a. Pertaining to hell.
1. Like hell in qualities; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn: beastly, hellish, god-awful]
2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1530 of, resembling, or befitting hell; broadly terrible • hellishly adverb • hellishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --adj. 1 of or like hell. 2 colloq. extremely difficult or unpleasant. --adv. Brit. colloq. (as an intensifier) extremely (hellish expensive). Derivatives: hellishly adv. hellishness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hellish Hell"ish, a. Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. ``Hellish hate.'' --Milton. -- Hell"ish*ly, adv. -- Hell"ish*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You describe something as hellish to emphasize that it is extremely unpleasant. (INFORMAL) The atmosphere in Washington is hellish... ADJ [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Of hell. 2. Infernal, diabolical, fiendish, devilish, demoniacal, fiend-like, atrocious, detestable, abominable, execrable, nefarious, curst, accursed, damnable, damned, monstrous.

Moby Thesaurus

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