nether world

American  

Or netherworld

noun

1. the infernal regions; hell.

2. the afterworld, or the hereafter.

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nether world British  

noun

1. the world after death; the underworld

2. hell

3. a criminal underworld

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Etymology

Origin of nether world

First recorded in 1630–40

Example Sentences

In going after the widest audience possible, “Bros” may have fallen into a marketplace nether world — too straight for gay audiences, and too gay for straight ones, some analysts posited.

From New York Times

In the manifesto’s unforgettable words: “A society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”

From The Guardian

Others were sucked into a nether world of buying the same pills on the black market or switching to heroin to meet the craving for ever higher doses.

From The Guardian

“To the noncombatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement; but to those who entered the meat grinder itself, the war was a nether world of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on,” he writes.

From New York Times

Then those pre-made products will enter the nether world of sports marketing known as phantom merchandise.

From Washington Post