Hellish vs Nether - What's the difference?
hellish | nether | Related terms |
Causing pain, discomfort or distress.
Lower; under.
Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
* 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
(mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
As adjectives the difference between hellish and nether
is that hellish is causing pain, discomfort or distress while nether is lower; under.As an adverb nether is
down; downward.As a verb nether is
to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.As a noun nether is
oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.hellish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.
Synonyms
* awful * horrible * terrible * nightmarish * infernalAntonyms
* heavenlynether
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .Adjective
- The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
- The nether regions.
- When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,