EVIL SPIRIT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A spirit tending to cause harm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("evil spirit" is a kind of...):

disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evil spirit"):

bad fairy (a fairy that tends to cause harm)

bogey; bogie; bogy (an evil spirit)

daemon; daimon; demon; devil; fiend (an evil supernatural being)

ghoul (an evil spirit or ghost)

goblin; hob; hobgoblin ((folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings)

kelpie; kelpy ((Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders)

lamia; vampire ((folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living)

Instance hyponyms:

Mephistopheles (evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul)