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Answer for the clue "Hellish ", 7 letters:
avernal

Word definitions for avernal in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avernal \A*ver"nal\, Avernian \A*ver"ni*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Avernian

Usage examples of avernal.

He, too, was garbed in the same black blackness as the flesh of the horse, as if he had stepped from some Avernal lake and its waters clung to him, becoming satin, and metal.