What is another word for purgatory?
Pronunciation:
[ pˈɜːɡətəɹˌi], [ pˈɜːɡətəɹˌi], [ p_ˈɜː_ɡ_ə_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]
Synonyms for Purgatory:
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n.
• grief- Bemoaning ,
- Bewailing ,
- Deploring ,
- affliction ,
- bereavement ,
- care ,
- dejection ,
- depression ,
- desolation ,
- despair ,
- despondency ,
- discomfort ,
- disquiet ,
- distress ,
- dole ,
- dolor ,
- gloom ,
- grievance ,
- harassment ,
- heartache ,
- heartbreak ,
- lamenting ,
- malaise ,
- melancholy ,
- misery ,
- mournfulness ,
- mourning ,
- pain ,
- regret ,
- remorse ,
- repining ,
- sadness ,
- sorrow ,
- trial ,
- tribulation ,
- unhappiness ,
- vexation ,
- woe ,
- worry ,
- wretchedness .
- abyss ,
- bedlam ,
- blazes ,
- difficulty ,
- furnace ,
- gehenna ,
- grave ,
- hades ,
- hell-fire ,
- holocaust ,
- horror ,
- inferno ,
- limbo ,
- mire ,
- morass ,
- oven ,
- styx .
- LUMPS ,
- abuse ,
- amercement ,
- beating ,
- castigation ,
- chastening ,
- chastisement ,
- comeuppance ,
- confiscation ,
- correction ,
- deprivation ,
- disciplinary action ,
- discipline ,
- forfeit ,
- forfeiture ,
- gallows ,
- hard work ,
- infliction ,
- just desserts ,
- maltreatment ,
- mulct ,
- ostracism ,
- proof ,
- punitive measure ,
- punitive measures ,
- reparation ,
- retribution ,
- rod ,
- rough treatment ,
- sanction ,
- sequestration ,
- short shrift ,
- slave labor ,
- victimization ,
- what for .
Other synonyms:
- death .
Other relevant words:
- Abaddon ,
- Clawing ,
- Cruciation ,
- Lancination ,
- Lustration ,
- Penfold ,
- Quag ,
- abysm ,
- afterlife ,
- agony ,
- anguish ,
- asceticism ,
- avichi ,
- bog ,
- bottomless pit ,
- cage ,
- captivity ,
- cathartic ,
- cleansing ,
- cold purgatorial fires ,
- coop ,
- crucifixion ,
- enclosure ,
- everlasting fire ,
- expiatory ,
- fasting ,
- fen ,
- flagellation ,
- grief ,
- hardship ,
- imaginary place ,
- infernal regions ,
- laceration ,
- living death ,
- living hell ,
- lower world ,
- maceration ,
- marsh ,
- martyrdom ,
- mortification ,
- nether world ,
- netherworld ,
- oblivion ,
- obliviousness ,
- pandemonium ,
- pang ,
- passion ,
- pen ,
- penitence ,
- perdition ,
- persecution ,
- pinfold ,
- pit ,
- place of confinement ,
- place of torment ,
- pound ,
- propitiatory ,
- punishment ,
- purgation ,
- purgative ,
- purgatorial ,
- purificatory ,
- purifier ,
- rack ,
- repentance ,
- sackcloth and ashes ,
- shrift ,
- situation ,
- slough ,
- state of affairs ,
- suffering ,
- sump ,
- swamp ,
- torment ,
- underworld .
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How to use "Purgatory" in context?
When we speak of purgatory, we often think of a place in the afterlife where people who have not yet achieved salvation spend time before entering heaven. This is only one interpretation of purgatory, and there are others.
Purgatory could also be a place where people go before they achieve salvation after death. It could also be a place of cleansing where people go after they die to rid themselves of any remaining sin.
Finally, purgatory could also be a time when people go to learn lessons or repent.
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