Usually means: Intense, destructive fire; eternal punishment.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word hellfire:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hellfire: Merriam-Webster
  2. hellfire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hellfire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hellfire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hellfire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hellfire, hellfire: Wordnik
  7. hellfire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hellfire: Wiktionary
  9. hellfire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hellfire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hellfire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hellfire: Dictionary.com
  13. hellfire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hellfire (J.T. Slade), Hellfire (J. T. Slade), Hellfire (Mango Groove song), Hellfire (album), Hellfire (comics), Hellfire (song), Hellfire (video game): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. hellfire: Rhymezone
  16. hellfire: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hellfire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hellfire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Hellfire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hellfire: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HELLFIRE: Acronym Finder
  2. hellfire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hellfire: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hellfire)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The fire of Hell.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell.
▸ noun:  (countable) A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a violent, apocalyptic and ultimate day of reckoning and judgment; usually characterizing a form of Christian preaching.
▸ noun:  (countable, military) Ellipsis of AGM-114 Hellfire.

Similar:
red region, heckfire, brimfire, inferno, blazes, brimstone, bonfire, fire, infernalism, fire and brimstone, more...

Opposite:
heaven

Types:
brimstone, inferno, pyre, conflagration, more...

Phrases:
Hellfire Club, AGM-114 Hellfire, Hellfire Caves, Hellfire Gala, The Electric Hellfire Club, more...

Adjectives:
eternal, more, everlasting, old, own, bloody, favorite, literal, red, doctrinaire, nuclear


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Similar:
red region, heckfire, brimfire, inferno, blazes, brimstone, bonfire, fire, infernalism, fire and brimstone, more...

Opposite:
heaven

Types:
brimstone, inferno, pyre, conflagration, more...

Phrases:
Hellfire Club, AGM-114 Hellfire, Hellfire Caves, Hellfire Gala, The Electric Hellfire Club, Hellfire Pass, hellfire missiles, more...

Adjectives:
eternal, more, everlasting, old, own, bloody, favorite, literal, red, doctrinaire, nuclear



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