GEHENNA Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

Gehenna

noun

gi-ˈhe-nə

Definition of Gehenna

as in nightmare

a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness the depression that has enshrouded her since the death of her husband is a Gehenna from which she may never be released

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as in hell

the place of punishment for the wicked after death in a fire-and-brimstone sermon, the evangelist warned those assembled that they faced the fires of Gehenna if they failed to repent

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Recent Examples of Gehenna In Memoriam looks at these vampires and how they’ve been thrust into the limelight due to the Gehenna War. — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025 The ball arcs toward Gehenna, and Kemp’s hyper narrator Naruto-runs off the page, trying kawaiily to get under it. — Alexandra Tanner, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025

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Noun

Anaheim’s long nightmare is over, writes columnist Gustavo Arellano.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
In outline, these are elegant Bond-villain machines for faceless, leaderless, pervasive espionage and assassination, the stuff of paranoid nightmares and stochastic violence.

— Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of nightmare

Noun

University email reply-all hell is one of many high jinks that form this bubbly little British rom-com.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
An episode of septicemia, with its hells and paradises, its nightmares and hallucinations, transforms Borges into a story writer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of hell

Noun

Bugs Bunny jams himself against the edge and grits his teeth in agony.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
The striking bronze sculpture depicts an outstretched arm reaching to the sky as hundreds of small human figures cling to it and each other with expressions of agony.

— Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of agony

Noun

Gunshots followed by an inferno Police responded to the home on Sunday evening and heard gunshots coming from out back, just before the house was completely engulfed in flames.

— Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Hiding underneath a desk in a classroom was an 8-foot python, which fire officials say started the inferno.

— Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of inferno

Noun

Jordan, to whom scorn comes more naturally than grace, accuses him of envying the rest of the troupe’s ennobling misery.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Some residents said hope is elusive given the island’s litany of miseries – from natural disasters to a bankrupt government to a financial control board that manages funding for infrastructure.

— Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of misery

Noun

This grief-horror debut centers on the Nakba, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War’s displacement of Palestinians.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
There’s even a nod to 28 Days Later, with Zeta-Jones hobbling across a deserted Westminster Bridge in London wearing blue hospital scrubs, just like Cillian Murphy’s Jim in the 2002 horror movie.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of horror

Noun

The lawsuit claims that Quero Silva, as the top military authority in Barquisimeto, a city in central-western Venezuela, oversaw their torture in the headquarters of the National Guard in the region.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
However, Pearl Fernandez and Isauro Aguirre were ultimately responsible for the torture and murder of Gabriel and were prosecuted for that, and they were convicted of that.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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