1. A temporary condition of torment or suffering
   "a purgatory of drug abuse" 
2. (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

Derived forms: purgatories

See also: purgatorial

Type of: fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place, situation

Encyclopedia: Purgatory

• unprepossessing
• unpresentable
• unpresidential
• unpressed
• unpretending
• unpretentious
• unpretentiously
• unpretentiousness
• unpreventable
• unpriestly
• unprincipled
• unprintable
• open-end wrench
• open-ended
• open-eyed
• open-face sandwich
• open-faced
• open-heart surgery
• open-hearth
• open-hearth furnace
• open-hearth process
• open-minded
• open-mindedly
• open-mindedness
• open-plan