hellscape.

A place or environment portrayed as extremely unpleasant, oppressive, or devastated, as though resembling hell.

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Words that belong together

• an industrial hellscape
• a ruined hellscape

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The ruined district became a hellscape of exposed pipes and ash.

She resisted calling the settlement a hellscape until she had seen its lower levels.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular hellscape; plural hellscapes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.