hellscape

[hel-skeyp]

noun

1. a bleak landscape or one that resembles hell.

   a post-apocalyptic hellscape.

2. a place or time that is hopeless, unbearable, or irredeemable: College application season is a hellscape.

   It’s impossible to avoid the hellscape of social media.

   College application season is a hellscape.

   Enjoy your existence on this hellscape in whatever way you can.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hellscape¹

First recorded in 1890–95; hell ( def. ) + -scape ( def. )

Example Sentences

And judge after judge after judge has said: No hellscape.

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"Families are fleeing one hellscape only to end up in another," Tessa Ingram of Unicef tells the BBC, stressing the trauma and daily stress for children.

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In the sequel panel, the tables have turned: The same guy is chained in a postapocalyptic hellscape while the woman lounges happily with her robot overlord, smugly nibbling chocolates.

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Not wanting to fry to death in a global warming hellscape or get shot with a machine gun by some weirdo who was radicalized by an algorithm are basic kitchen-table qualify-of-life issues.

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Just a few months ago, I made my friends go back into Disneyland’s hellscape, after we had already exited the park, when I realized I’d left the rainbow sunglasses at Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin.

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