Word Meanings - FIEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon. Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while. Milton. O woman! woman!

Additional info about word: FIEND

An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon. Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while. Milton. O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. Pope. (more info) akin to OS. fiond, D. vijand enemy, OHG. fiant, G. feind, Icel. fjand, Sw. & Dan. fiende, Goth. fijands; orig. p.pr. of a verb meaning to hate, AS. feón, feógan, OHG. fi, Goth. fijan, Skr. piy to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FIEND)

• Devil
• Satan
• lucifer
• fiend
• archfiend
• foul fiend
• demon
• Monster
• Prodigy
• portent
• marvel
• deformity
• abnormity
• fright
• colossus
• monstrosity
• leviathan
• brute

Related words: (words related to FIEND)

• LUCIFERIAN
  1. Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish. 2. Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.
• DEMONIC
  Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell.
• DEMONSTRABLY
  In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause. Clarendon.
• DEMONRY
  Demoniacal influence or possession. J. Baillie.
• LUCIFEROUSLY
  In a luciferous manner.
• DEMONIASM
  See DEMONIANISM
• BRUTENESS
  1. Brutality. Spenser. 2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• DEMON
  A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That
• DEVILET
  A little devil. Barham.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• DEVILESS
  A she-devil. Sterne.
• LEVIATHAN
  1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned on other passages of Scripture. Note: It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent. 2. The whale, or a great
• DEVILISM
  The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.
• DEMONIAC
  One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved. (more info) 1. A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The demoniac in the gospel was
• DEVILISH
  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive.
• DEMONOLOGIC; DEMONOLOGICAL
  Of or Pertaining to demonology.
• DEMONSTRATER
  See DEMONSTRATOR
• DEVILFISH
  A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
• DEMONESS
  A female demon.
• VAUDEVILLE
  where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.