- demon
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)Evil spiritNouns1. demon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, succubus; Frankenstein's monster; Ahriman; fury, harpy. Informal, things that go bump in the night.2. (incarnation of Evil) the Devil, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Belial; Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Apollyon, Avernus, Nicholas; the tempter, evil, the evil one, the evil spirit, the Prince of Darkness, fallen angel, the clovenhoof, Lord of the Flies; Pluto, god of the underworld; the foul fiend, thearchfiend; the Devil incarnate; the serpent, 666 (Revelations or Apocalypse 13:18). Slang, the deuce, the dickens, old Nick, Sam Hill, old Scratch, old Harry, dibble, Dad.3. (mischievous demons) vampire, ghoul; ogre, ogress; gnome, affreet, genie, imp, kobold, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, gremlin, dwarf, urchin, Puck, leprechaun, troll, sprite, bad fairy, nix, will-o'-the-wisp, poltergeist, basilisk, cacodemon, dhoul, diablotin, gogmagog, lamia, spoorn, succuba, succubus, troll; werewolf, lycanthrope.4. (spirit of the dead) ghost, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobgoblin; bugaboo, bugbear, bogey; dybbuk, revenant; specter, spook, wraith; zombie; banshee; evil eye; mawkin, nightmare. Informal, haint. See hell.5. (benign spirits) mermaid, merman, merfolk; siren; satyr, faun; changeling, elf-child.Verbs — possess, obsess, bewitch, demonize.Adjectives — demonic, demoniacal; supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral; ghostly, ghostlike; elfin, elflike; fiendish, fiendlike; impish, haunted; satanic, Mephistophelian; diabolic[al], devilish; infernal, hellish, hell-born, Plutonic.Phrases — where God builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel.Quotations — The prince of darkness is a gentleman (Shakespeare).II(Roget's IV) n.1. [Evil spirit]Syn. devil, imp, vampire, incubus; see devil 1 .2. [Villain]III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.devil, fiend, satan, imp, monster, ogre, savage, evil spirit, ghoul, goblin, puck, supernatural being, *fallen angel. see monster
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