Hellish vs. Infernal

Hellishadjective

Causing pain, discomfort or distress.

‘I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.’;

Infernaladjective

Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.

Hellishadjective

Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

Infernaladjective

(by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.

Hellishadjective

very unpleasant;

‘hellish weather’; ‘stop that god-awful racket’;

Infernaladjective

Stygian, gloomy.

Hellishadjective

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’;

Infernaladjective

Diabolical or fiendish.

Infernaladjective

Very annoying; damned.

Infernalnoun

(obsolete) An inhabitant of the infernal regions.

Infernaladjective

Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.

‘The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy.’;

Infernaladjective

Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.

‘The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings.’;

Infernalnoun

An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.

Infernalnoun

an inhabitant of hell;

‘his roar made the infernals quake’;

Infernaladjective

characteristic of or resembling hell;

‘infernal heat and noise’;

Infernaladjective

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’;

Infernaladjective

expletives used informally as intensifiers;

‘he's a blasted idiot’; ‘it's a blamed shame’; ‘a blame cold winter’; ‘not a blessed dime’; ‘I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing’; ‘he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool’; ‘a deuced idiot’; ‘tired or his everlasting whimpering’; ‘an infernal nuisance’;

Infernaladjective

relating to or inhabiting hell;

‘his infernal majesty’; ‘infernal fires’; ‘infernal punishments’;

Infernaladjective

being of a lower world of the dead;

‘infernal regions’;