All purgatory synonyms
pur·ga·to·ry
P p noun purgatory
- lamentation — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- inferno — hell; the infernal regions.
- hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
- abaddon — the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- hades — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- gehenna — the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where propitiatory sacrifices were made to Moloch. II Kings 23:10.
- lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
- infelicity — the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.