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Definition: Demonic |
DemonicAdjective1. Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "demonic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Etymology: Demonic \De*mo"nic\, adjective. [Latin expression daemonicus, Greek daimoniko`s.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DemonicSynonyms: diabolic (adj), diabolical (adj), fiendish (adj), hellish (adj), infernal (adj), satanic (adj), unholy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession; insanity;. |
Adjective: demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal; fiendish, fiend-like; supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral; ghostly, ghost-like; elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike; haunted; pokerish. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Demonic |
| English words defined with "demonic": Daemonic, diabolic, diabolical ♦ fiendish ♦ hellish ♦ infernal ♦ sabbat, satanic ♦ unholy ♦ witches' Sabbath. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Demonic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (demoniacal, demonic, diabolic, diabolical). |
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Screenplays | Did you cast a spell to ward off demonic parasites? (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Demonic Toys (1992) | |
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 | Cackle; cackling; evil; sinister; Mephistophelean; accursed; devil; cursed; damnable; damned; demoniac; demonic; detestable; diabolic; diabolical; execrable; fiendish; hellborn; hellish; hell; infernal; iniquitous; nefarious; satanic; serpentine; unhallow. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | They were in continuous motion, animated, as if driven by an inner restlessness . . . . Even worse than these demonic transformations of the outer world were the alterations that I perceived in myself, in my inner being. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Demonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Demonic" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 105 | 31,781 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "demonic": near-demonic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "demonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | djallëzor (demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic), shumë i talentuar, shumë i aftë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عفريتي (impish, satanic), شيطاني (demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, impish, infernal, playful, satanic, serpentine, swinging, unholy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бесен (mad, rabid, raging, tearing, violent, wild), дяволски (cursedly, deuced, deucedly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, plaguy, tarnal), демонски (demoniacal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 恶"般 (Devilish, Diabolic, Diabolical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | démonický (daedal, daemonic, demoniacal, ghoulish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | satanisch (Satanic), demonisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | demona. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | démoniaque (demoniac, demoniacal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dämonische. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δαιμονικόσ (daemonic, daemonical, demonical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ש"י (devilish, ghoulish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ördögi (daemonic, demoniacal, devil, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, satanic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kejam (callous, demoniac, diabolical, ferocious, grim, hard hearted, harsh, inhuman, ruthless), jahat (devilish, maleficent, mean, sinister, unrighteous, villainous, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | demonico (daemonic, daemonical, demonical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emonicday demoníaco (daemonic, demoniacal, fiendish, impish). (various references) diabolic (demoniac, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, diabolically, fiendish, hellish, infernal), demonic (demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical). (various references) демонический (daemonic, demoniac, demoniacal). (various references) demonski (daemonic, demoniacal). (various references) demoníaco (daemonic, demoniacal), del demonio (daemonic), ingenioso (acute, artful, clever, daedal, daemonic, ingenious, nifty, politic, resourceful, witty). (various references) djävulsk (daemonic, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, satanical), demonisk (daemoniacal, daemonic, demoniacal, ghoulish). (various references) kötü ruhlu (daemon, demon), cinli (demoniac, demoniacal, haunted, possessed), şeytanlı, şeytani (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unhallowed). (various references) надзвичайно обдарований, демонічний (demoniacal), диявольський (demoniacal, fiendish, hellish, satanic, satanical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "demonic": demonical, demonically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "demonic": cacodemonic. (additional references) | |
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"Demonic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: damonic, demanic, Demeny, Demianuk, demoing, demonaic, Demonax, demoness, demonics, demonix, demony, Demornay, deontic, Dimona, Domenech, domenic, Domoni, edoni, memonic, nemonic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "demonic" (pronounced di'mÄ"nik) |
| 5 | -m Ä" n i k | gnomonic, harmonic, hegemonic, mnemonic, philharmonic, pneumonic. |
| 4 | -Ä" n i k | allophonic, avionic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, conic, diatonic, electronic, embryonic, ganglionic, hedonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, laconic, leptonic, masonic, microelectronic, monophonic, nucleonic, ovonic, pharaonic, phonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, polyphonic, sardonic, sonic, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, tectonic, telephonic, tonic, ultrasonic. |
| 3 | -n i k | arsenic, beatnik, botanic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, clinic, cynic, Dominick, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, germanic, hallucinogenic, inorganic, kibbutznik, manic, mechanic, messianic, monoclinic, multiethnic, neotenic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, panic, pathogenic, photogenic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, splenic, Sputnik, technic, telegenic, Titanic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, volcanic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: codein, coined, domine, emodin, income, medico, minced, monied. | |
-2 letters: coden, coned, demon, denim, domic, medic, mince, mined, monde, monie. | |
-3 letters: cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coin, come, cone, coni, deco, demo, deni, dice, dime, dine, dome, done, emic, iced, icon, idem, mend, meno, mice, mien, mind, mine, mode, modi, nice, nide, node, nodi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: combined, comedian, daemonic, demoniac. | |
+2 letters: comedians, comingled, companied, compendia, condiment, confirmed, crimsoned, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, incommode, indecorum, macedoine, miscoined, princedom. | |
+3 letters: androecium, championed, comedienne, commending, commingled, comminuted, communised, communized, compendium, complained, condemning, condiments, decimation, demoniacal, discommend, diseconomy, dominances, dominicker, dormancies, echinoderm, economised, economized, entodermic, incommoded, incommodes, indecorums, macedoines, medication, mendacious, micronized, midsection, miscounted, mordancies, nematocide, nonmedical, princedoms, recombined, uncombined, undomestic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6D 6F 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- --- -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m o n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 006F 006E 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38717981807569 |
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