hellacious
hel·la·cious
adj \ˌhe-ˈlā-shəs\Definition of HELLACIOUS
1
: exceptionally powerful or violent
2
: remarkably good
3
: extremely difficult
4
: extraordinarily large
— hel·la·cious·ly adverb
See Examples of HELLACIOUS
- Traffic is hellacious this time of day.
- <the hellacious heat was more than we could bear>
Origin of HELLACIOUS
hell + -acious (as in audacious)
First Known Use: 1929
Related to HELLACIOUS
Related Words: accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened; emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified; stressed; exhaustive, thorough; harsh, rigorous, severe
Near Antonyms: feeble, weak; shallow, superficial; moderated, qualified; alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down); abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued
Rhymes with HELLACIOUS
audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious
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