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Gehenna
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of GEHENNA
1
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>
Related Words affliction, calvary, cross, curse, ordeal, trial, tribulation; calamity, misfortune, tragedy; gall, thorn; bummer, downer, drag
2
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>
Related Words blazes, inferno; purgatory; hades, netherworld, shades, Tartarus, underworld; Sheol; abyss, pit; fire and brimstone, hellfire
Antonyms bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)
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