Tartarus

noun

Definition of Tartarusnext
as in underworld

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  1. underworld
  2. netherworld
  3. inferno
  4. purgatory
Noun
  • This underworld of extremes has given us some of the most impressive creatures ever discovered—some hauntingly beautiful, others delightfully bizarre.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Colin Farrell plays the Penguin, whose real name is Oz Cobb, and who is struggling to rise to power in the fictional city's criminal underworld.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of underworld
Noun
  • Below that is the Futures tour, tennis’s vast netherworld of more than 2,000 true prospects and hopeless dreamers.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 July 2024
  • Tells Real-Life Tales of the Country's Most Notorious Motorcycle Gang 'Dune: Part Two' Is Bigger, Bolder — and Yes, Even Better — Than Part One Lyons’ book also utilized a long, taped conversation with Kathy Bauer, the real-life Benny’s wife, as a dispatch from this dirty-fingernail netherworld.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
Definition of netherworld
Noun
  • There will be many Democratic leaders whose political souls will be living in Dante's inferno.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The wood — bearing visible black traces from the blaze — came from pieces of the cathedral roof that collapsed in the inferno, Dubuisson said.
    John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of inferno
Noun
  • If everyone is in purgatory, how can Heather come and go?
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 29 Dec. 2024
  • If there’s a way out of his purgatory, no one can see it, the mounting defeats and shortage of high-end talent obscuring the path ahead.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of purgatory
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