hell; the infernal regions.

a place or region that resembles hell

The ironworks was an inferno of molten steel and half-naked bodies.

( initial capital letter, italics ) the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting hell and the suffering of the damned. Compare paradise ( def. 7 ) , purgatory ( def. 2 ) .

noun

blazes , bottomless pit * , everlasting fire , fire and brimstone * , hades , hellfire , netherworld , purgatory , underworld , abyss , fire , hell , holocaust , pit