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Meaning of hellish

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  hellish
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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