Roget's Thesaurus

#982. Hell

Nouns

hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol. hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies. purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss. [Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus [Lat.], Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto. Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus [Lat.]; Tophet.

Adjectives

hellish, infernal, stygian.

Phrases

dies irae dies illa [Lat.]; the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night [Love's Labor's Lost].