Definition of hell

"hell" in the noun sense

1. hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno

any place of pain and turmoil

"the hell of battle"

"the inferno of the engine room"

"when you're alone Christmas is the pits"

2. hell, blaze

a cause of difficulty and suffering

"war is hell"

"go to blazes"

3. Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit

Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil where sinners suffer eternal punishment

"Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton

"a demon from the depths of the pit"

"Hell is paved with good intentions"-Dr. Johnson

4. Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld

religion) the world of the dead

"No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis

5. hell, blaze

noisy and unrestrained mischief

"raising blazes"

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Quotations for hell

The hell within him. [ Milton ]

War begun, hell let loose. [ Italian Proverb ]

Hell is empty.
And all the devils are here. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old maids lead apes in hell. [ Proverb ]

When war begins, hell opens. [ Proverb ]

Half a house is half a hell. [ German Proverb ]

Hell is truth seen too late. [ H. G. Adams ]

Hell is full of the ungrateful. [ Proverb ]

Hell is wherever heaven is not. [ Proverb ]

Doubt is hell in the human soul. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

Beholding heaven and feeling hell. [ Moore ]

Hell and Chancery are always open. [ Proverb ]

He'll swear the devil out of hell. [ Proverb ]

Harrow hell and rake up the devil. [ Proverb ]

Hell is paved with women's tongues. [ Abbe Guyon ]

Hell itself must yield to industry. [ Ben Jonson ]

When war begins, then hell openeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hell is paved with good intentions. [ Samuel Johnson ]

What the hell's wrong with him now? [ Yogi Berra, after his wife Carmen said she took Tim to see Doctor Zhivago ]

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell! [ Byron ]

Hell bring buckle and thong together. [ Proverb ]

Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye. [ Bishop Ken ]

Hell is more bearable than nothingness. [ Bailey ]

O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear! [ William Shakespeare ]

Had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell.
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hell is no other but a soundless pit,
Where no one beam of comfort peeps in it. [ Herrick ]

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell! [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

A wicked companion invites us all to hell. [ Proverb ]

Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. [ German Proverb ]

O woman, woman, when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. [ Homer ]

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hell is the wrath of God - His hate of sin. [ Bailey ]

Divines and dying men may talk of hell,
But in my heart her several torments dwell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Eternal torments, baths of boiling sulphur.
Vicissitude of fires, and then of frosts. [ Dryden ]

No greater hell than to be a slave to fear. [ Ben Jonson ]

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. [ Milton ]

Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. [ Milton ]

There is nobody will go to hell for company. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Pride, the first peer and president of hell. [ De Foe ]

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]

Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. [ Milton ]

I fled, and cried out Death!
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded Death. [ Milton ]

All places shall be hell that are not heaven. [ Marlowe ]

Men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

That's the greatest torture souls feel in hell.
In hell, that they must live, and cannot die. [ John Webster ]

Midnight hags.
By force of potent spells, of bloody characters,
And conjurations, horrible to hear,
Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep,
And set the ministers of hell at work. [ Rowe ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell. [ Tupper ]

'Tis now the very witching time of night
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. [ William Shakespeare ]

All of heaven and hell is not known till hereafter. [ Proverb ]

Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide;
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. [ Milton ]

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. [ Swedenborg ]

The hell for women who are only handsome is old age. [ Saint-Evremond ]

England's the paradise of women, and hell of horses. [ Proverb ]

Better go to Heaven in rags than to Hell in embroidery. [ Proverb ]

There are abysses in the mind that are deeper than hell. [ Platen ]

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There are depths in the soul which are deeper than hell. [ Platen ]

There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object. [ Keats ]

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. [ Calvin ]

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. [ Milton ]

When a lackey comes to hell's door, the devils lock the gates. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. [ Voltaire ]

Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the serenity of heaven. [ Donne ]

Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time? [ Yogi Berra ]

He's at a great loss for jests that is forced to rake hell for them. [ Proverb ]

Women are demons that make us enter hell through the door of paradise.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven and hell a fable. [ Colton ]

Hell is full of good meanings and wishes, but heaven is full of good works. [ Proverb ]

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. [ Edward Irving ]

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. [ Congreve ]

A wicked man is his own hell; and his passions and lusts the fiends that torment him. [ Proverb ]

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a, devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. [ Lilly ]

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest. [ Pascal ]

Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell! [ Victor Hugo ]

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God. [ Jonathan Edwards ]

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul, the "purgatory" of the purse, and the "paradise" of the eyes. [ Fontenelle ]

Death is but another phase of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell. [ Carlyle ]

For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. [ Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman ]

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. [ Tupper ]

When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying and lying is the whole way to hell. [ William Penn ]

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. [ Burton ]

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there. [ Bobby Knight ]

O jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up. [ Hannah More ]

Life is a sea; the soul the threatened ship; sin, Satan, and hell the dangers to be met; and Christ the great pilot, who will bring the soul into the heavenly harbor. [ J. Foster ]

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. [ Rutherford ]

It is now the very witching time of night; when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, and do such business as the bitter day would quake to look on. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]

Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip manure. [ Carlyle ]

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. [ Thomas Paine ]

hell in Scrabble®

The word hell is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters hell:

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hell in Words With Friends™

The word hell is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters hell:

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The 68 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In hell

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Words within the letters of hell

2 letter words in hell (3 words)

3 letter words in hell (1 word)

4 letter words in hell (1 word)

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Shorter words in hell

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Longer words containing hell

brothellike

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hellhole hellholes

hellhound hellhounds

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hello hellos

hello phellodendron phellodendrons

hellraise hellraised

hellraise hellraiser hellraisers

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