Definitions for hellish

hellish hell·ish

Spelling: [hel-ish]
IPA: /ˈhɛl ɪʃ/

Hellish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in hellish (ehhills).

Definitions for hellish

adjective

  1. of, like, or suitable to hell; infernal; vile; horrible:
  2. miserable; abominable; execrable:
  3. devilishly bad:

Origin of hellish

First recorded in 1520-30; hell + -ish1

Examples for hellish

He was finally released in 2004, after almost 40 hellish years of brutal internment.

After some minutes of the hellish tumult she had asked to see the Director.

From Ferguson to Gaza to Iraq, this summer has been hellish.

Were they building their city from the sand of the desert, these hellish glaciers?

But there is much to be said for a private, hellish experience becoming an issue of public debate.

And do you know what I've been doing during all this hellish period?

Then I went back and let that hellish fluid out of the pool, and turning on all the water, washed the marble clean of every drop.

Others in the cutter had noted the incident of the hellish fight.

Above her head was the roar of tempest, and the vivid, hellish light of the storm.

You paint the world in hellish colors and then offer yourself or your program as a savior.

Word Value for hellish
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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