hellish

From hell +‎ -ish.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɪʃ
• Hyphenation: hell‧ish

hellish (comparative more hellish, superlative most hellish)

1. infernal, related or similar to hell
   • 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC; republished as Hermann Breymann, editor, Doctor Faustus (Englische Sprach- und Literaturdenkmale des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts; 5; Marlowes Werke: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe […]; II), Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg: Verlag von Gebr[üder] Henninger, 1889, →OCLC, scene XIV, page 196:

     Faustus is gone, regard his hellish fall, / Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]

2. (hyperbolic) causing great pain, discomfort or distress

   Synonyms: awful, horrible, infernal, nightmarish, terrible

   I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

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