Definition for Purgatory:

• According to R. Catholic and some eastern religions, a place or state in which souls are after death purified from venial sins.

Synonyms for Purgatory:

• n.

  •
  • ordeal,
  • crisis,
  • tragedy,
  • nightmare,
  • stress,
  • battle,
  • trouble,
  • quagmire,
  • worst-case scenario.
  •catholicism (noun)
  • bull,
  • anglo-catholic,
  • conclave,
  • apostolic,
  • catholicism,
  • altar boy,
  • confess,
  • catholic,
  • confession.
  •grief (noun)
  • misery,
  • lamenting,
  • despondency,
  • affliction,
  • tribulation,
  • mortification,
  • vexation,
  • agony,
  • desolation,
  • gloom,
  • torture,
  • melancholy,
  • Bemoaning,
  • worry,
  • regret,
  • mourning,
  • sadness,
  • anguish,
  • Deploring,
  • trial,
  • remorse,
  • discomfort,
  • distress,
  • disquiet,
  • care,
  • grievance,
  • despair,
  • depression,
  • dolor,
  • heartbreak,
  • harassment,
  • bereavement,
  • unhappiness,
  • pain,
  • wretchedness,
  • Bewailing,
  • sorrow,
  • heartache,
  • malaise,
  • mournfulness,
  • repining,
  • woe,
  • dole,
  • dejection.
  •hell (noun)
  • horror,
  • holocaust,
  • hell-fire,
  • oven,
  • styx,
  • bedlam,
  • gehenna,
  • abyss,
  • difficulty,
  • torment,
  • blazes,
  • grave,
  • inferno,
  • mire,
  • pandemonium,
  • limbo,
  • hades,
  • furnace,
  • morass.
  •penalty (noun)
  • punishment.
  •perdition (noun)
  • damnation,
  • condemnation,
  • loss of the soul,
  • ruin.
  •punishment (noun)
  • maltreatment,
  • penance,
  • correction,
  • amercement,
  • gallows,
  • what for,
  • hard work,
  • rough treatment,
  • sequestration,
  • discipline,
  • confiscation,
  • rod,
  • victimization,
  • just desserts,
  • ostracism,
  • slave labor,
  • chastening,
  • forfeiture,
  • abuse,
  • punitive measure,
  • retribution,
  • mulct,
  • LUMPS,
  • short shrift,
  • forfeit,
  • proof,
  • deprivation,
  • chastisement,
  • castigation,
  • punitive measures,
  • comeuppance,
  • beating,
  • disciplinary action,
  • sanction,
  • reparation,
  • infliction.
  •purgatory (noun)
  • Abaddon,
  • infernal regions,
  • nether world,
  • suffering,
  • underworld,
  • bottomless pit,
  • lower world,
  • place of torment,
  • everlasting fire,
  • perdition,
  • pit,
  • fire and brimstone.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • death.

Purgatory Sentence Examples:

• Back to the world from purgatory again.

• Personally I found his point of view depressing, but then I read him in a translation and never got even as far as the Purgatory.

Hyponym for Purgatory:

• n.

  • cognition
    mythical place, fictitious place, imaginary place.
  • state
    situation.