What part of speech is hellish?

Hellish can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. hellish is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more hellish
    most hellish
  • Positive: hellish 
  • Comparative: more hellish
  • Superlative: most hellish

What does hellish mean?

Definitions

Adjective

hellish - 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"
hellish - very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"

Examples of hellish

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Hellish torture.
2. adj. Hellish weather.
3. adj. Well, sure enough, when I heard the cats "Meowing," I imagined the hellish moments these poor beautiful creatures of God were living, what went on in their tiny, sweet little minds, and decided that I want to do something about this torture.
4. adj. Life is more hellish than hell itself.
5. adj. Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
6. adj. The road to simplicity is paved with hellish complexities.
7. adj. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.
8. adj. Will you shut up, hellish cicada?
9. adj. This election campaign is going to be a hellish mix of vituperative venom, as nasty as a fraternity house bathroom on New Year's Eve.
10. adj. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
11. adj. The pile driver is destroying the peaceful morning with a hellish racket.
Sentence  
adj.
Hellish torture.
Hellish weather.
Well, sure enough, when I heard the cats "Meowing," I imagined the hellish moments these poor beautiful creatures of God were living, what went on in their tiny, sweet little minds, and decided that I want to do something about this torture.
Life is more hellish than hell itself.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
The road to simplicity is paved with hellish complexities.
It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.
Will you shut up, hellish cicada?
This election campaign is going to be a hellish mix of vituperative venom, as nasty as a fraternity house bathroom on New Year's Eve.
Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
The pile driver is destroying the peaceful morning with a hellish racket.

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