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as hell en · ADV

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (postpositional, qualifier:simile, vulgar) To a great extent or degree; very.
    • Even though he was frightened for them, even though he was scared as hell to fail them, it felt so good to know these people cared when he hurt! 2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang:
    • Kim's phony as hell.
    • The neighbor's dog is loud as hell.
    • With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
    • Two thousand years of waiting for their Messiah, and they're still persistent as hell. 2001, Dan Brown, Angels and Demons:
    • Just annoying as hell, as obnoxious as hell, and as effective as hell. 2004, James W. Huston, Secret Justice:
    • It was icy as hell on the road that morning, and as I put my brakes on, the van just kept going.
    • It's cold as hell in here!
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, hell.
    • My Soul forſakes her vain Delight, / and bids the World farewel, / Baſe as the Dirt beneath my Feet, / And miſcheivous as Hell. 1707, Isaac Watts, “Parting with Carnal Joys”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 87:

Deriveds

hot as hell

Relateds

as all hell

Synonyms

as all hell (to a great extent or degree) · as heck (to a great extent or degree) · as fuck (to a great extent or degree) · as a motherfucker (to a great extent or degree) · as anything (to a great extent or degree) · as (to a great extent or degree) · as shit (to a great extent or degree)

Translations (25)

da pisse- (very) · pl jak jasna cholera (very) · pl jak wszyscy diabli (very) · it da morire (very) · pl jak nie wiem (very) · nl als de pest (very) · ro ca dracu (very) · pt pra caralho (very) · nl als de neten (very) · pl jak cholera (very) · pl cholernie (very) · sv som fan (very) · yue ～到死 (very) · sv så in i helvete (very) · pl jak sto diabłów (very) · pl jak jasny gwint (very) · fr à crever (very) · fr à mort (very) · pl jak nie wiem co (very) · yue 鬼咁～ (very) · cs jako prase (very) · be да хале́ры (very) · yue ～到鬼 (very) · ru черто́вски (very) · pl jak diabli (very)