Demon

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An evil supernatural being; a devil.
  • n. A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion: the demon of drug addiction.
  • n. One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent: worked away like a demon; a real demon at math.
  • n. Variant of daimon.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An evil spirit.
  • n. A fallen angel or Satanic divinity; a false god.
  • n. One’s inner spirit or genius, a daimon.
  • n. A spirit or lesser divinity between men and gods.
  • n. A foible; a flaw in a person’s character.
  • n. Someone of remarkable or diabolical energy or ability.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
  • n. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice.
  • n. An evil spirit; a devil.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Greek myth, a supernatural agent or intelligence, lower in rank than a god; a spirit holding a middle place between gods and men; one of a class of ministering spirits, sometimes regarded as including the souls of deceased persons; a genius: as, the demon or good genius of Socrates. Sometimes written daimon.
  • n. An evil spirit; a devil: from the belief of the early Christian world that all the divinities of the pagans were devils.
  • n. Figuratively, an atrociously wicked or cruel person; one characterized by demoniac passions or conduct.
  • n. [capitalized] A certain genus of Coleoptera.
  • n. In anthropology, a supernatural protector or helper. See manito and *nyarong.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a cruel wicked and inhuman person
  • n. someone extremely diligent or skillful
  • n. an evil supernatural being
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    doer    worker    actor   
    Cross Reference
    devil    maxwell's demon    angel    succubus    possessed    larva    vampire    possession    imp    dragon   
    Variant
    daemon   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    devil    ghost   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Freeman    Leman    Riemann    Seaman    Shimon    Zeeman    daemon    freeman    heman    leaman   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    monster    devil    dragon    beast    God    vampire    warrior    ghost    wolf    witch   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.