"hellish" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈhɛlɪʃ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hellish.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more hellish [comparative], most hellish [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛlɪʃ Etymology: From hell + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|hell|ish}} hell + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} hellish (comparative more hellish, superlative most hellish)
  1. infernal, related or similar to hell
    Sense id: en-hellish-en-adj-v68HOciq Categories (other): Hell Disambiguation of Hell: 89 11
  2. (hyperbolic) causing great pain, discomfort or distress Tags: excessive Synonyms: awful, horrible, infernal, nightmarish, terrible Translations (causing pain, discomfort or distress): جَحِيمِيّ (jaḥīmiyy) (Arabic), جَهَنَّمِيّ (jahannamiyy) (Arabic), դժոխային (džoxayin) (Armenian), пяке́льны (pjakjélʹny) (Belarusian), а́дски (ádski) (Bulgarian), пъ́клен (pǎ́klen) (Bulgarian), pekelný (Czech), helvedes (Danish), infernalsk (Danish), hels (Dutch), helvetillinen (Finnish), infernal (French), höllisch (German), infernale (Italian), пеколен (pekolen) (Macedonian), адски (adski) (Macedonian), നരക (naraka) (Malayalam), înfèrna (Norman), helvetes (Norwegian Bokmål), infernalsk (Norwegian Bokmål), piekielny (Polish), infernal (Portuguese), infernal (Romanian), а́дский (ádskij) (Russian), а́довый (ádovyj) (Russian), па̀клен [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), pàklen [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pekelný (Slovak), peklenski (Slovene), infernal (Spanish), helvetisk (Swedish), infernalisk (Swedish), пеке́льний (pekélʹnyj) (Ukrainian), جَہَنَّمی (jahannamī) (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-hellish-en-adj-KCmwtzqD Categories (other): English hyperboles, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 28 72 Disambiguation of 'causing pain, discomfort or distress': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hell

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    },
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        "superlative"
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "horrible"
        },
        {
          "word": "infernal"
        },
        {
          "word": "nightmarish"
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        {
          "word": "terrible"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "roman": "pjakjélʹny",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "пяке́льны"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ádski",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "а́дски"
        },
        {
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pǎ́klen",
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          "word": "пъ́клен"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "helvedes"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "infernale"
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          "roman": "pekolen",
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          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "infernal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "helvetisk"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
          "word": "infernalisk"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "word": "пеке́льний"
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
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          "word": "جَہَنَّمی"
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    },
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "horrible"
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          "word": "infernal"
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        {
          "word": "nightmarish"
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        {
          "word": "terrible"
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      "word": "جَحِيمِيّ"
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      "word": "جَهَنَّمِيّ"
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      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "пяке́льны"
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      "word": "пъ́клен"
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      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "pekelný"
    },
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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      "word": "helvetillinen"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "infernale"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pekolen",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "пеколен"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "adski",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "адски"
    },
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      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "naraka",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "നരക"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "înfèrna"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "helvetes"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "infernalsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "piekielny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "infernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
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    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ádskij",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "а́дский"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ádovyj",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "а́довый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "па̀клен"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pàklen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "pekelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "peklenski"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "infernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "helvetisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "infernalisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pekélʹnyj",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "пеке́льний"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "jahannamī",
      "sense": "causing pain, discomfort or distress",
      "word": "جَہَنَّمی"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hellish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.