adjective

• Resembling or characteristic of hell; hellish.

  ‘The helly ringmaster cracks his whip!’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It's all a helly nightmare.’
  • ‘Let any indifferent man judge whether this party was fit to have a licence and authority conferred upon him to keep this helly trade or no.’
  • ‘He went down into hell and threatened the helly king.’
  • ‘Just pass me the wine - I've a helly and horrible kind of drouth!’

  Synonyms

  of hell, hellish, lower, nether, subterranean, underworld