Crossword clues for fiend
fiend
- Big fan
- Wicked one
- Minion of Satan
- Ardent fan
- Rabid fan
- Nasty type
- Mr. Hyde, e.g
- Wicked person
- Diabolic one
- Horrible monster
- Evil sort
- Dastardly one
- Inhuman one
- Diabolic type
- Wicked sort
- Wicked and inhuman person
- Serious devotee
- Rabid enthusiast
- One who's all like "I NEED IT"
- Obsessed person
- Malevolent sort
- Lord Voldemort, e.g
- Enthusiastic aficionado
- Diabolical type
- Devil or monster
- Beelzebub, e.g
- Ardent buff
- "My Best ___" (Werner Herzog documentary about his relationship with Klaus Kinski)
- Mr. Hyde, for one
- Brute
- Ogre
- Evil one
- Villain
- Devotee
- One who's devilishly devoted?
- Enthusiast, plus
- Dastardly sort
- Real enthusiast
- Diabolical sort
- A cruel wicked and inhuman person
- One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
- A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
- Old Nick
- Demonic sort
- Evil spirit
- What? The Devil!
- Hellkite
- Satanic person
- Beelzebub, e.g.
- Addict
- Devilish one
- Diabolical one
- Hellhound
- Buff
- Despicable sort
- Despicable person
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiend \Fiend\, n. [OE. fend, find, fiend, feond, fiend, foe, AS. fe['o]nd; akin to OS. f[=i]ond, D. vijand enemy, OHG. f[=i]ant, G. feind, Icel. fj[=a]nd, Sw. & Dan. fiende, Goth. fijands; orig. p. pr. of a verb meaning to hate, AS. fe['o]n, fe['o]gan, OHG. f[=i]?n, Goth. fijan, Skr. p[=i]y to scorn; prob. akin to E. feud a quarrel. [root]81. Cf. Foe, Friend.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English feond "enemy, foe, adversary," originally present participle of feogan "to hate," from Proto-Germanic *fijand- "hating, hostile" (cognates: Old Frisian fiand "enemy," Old Saxon fiond, Middle Dutch viant, Dutch vijand "enemy," Old Norse fjandi, Old High German fiant, Gothic fijands), from suffixed form of PIE root *pe(i)- "to hurt" (cognates: Sanskrit pijati "reviles, scorns," Greek pema "suffering, misery, woe," Gothic faian "to blame," and possibly Latin pati "to suffer, endure"). According to Watkins, not allied to foe and feud (n.).\n
\nAs spelling suggests, the word originally was the opposite of friend and described any hostile enemy (male and female, with abstract noun form feondscipe "fiendship"), but it began to be used in late Old English for "the Devil, Satan" (literally "adversary") as the "enemy of mankind," which shifted its sense to "diabolical person" (early 13c.). The old sense of the word devolved to foe, then to the imported word enemy. For spelling with -ie- see field. Meaning "devotee (of whatever is indicated)," as in dope fiend, is from 1865.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) An enemy, unfriend, or foe. 2 (context religious archaic English) The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan. 3 A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit. 4 A very evil person 5 (context informal English) An addict or fanatic
WordNet
n. a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, devil, demon, ogre]
one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: devil, demon, daemon, daimon]
a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill [syn: fanatic]
Wikipedia
Fiends is a term used in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game to refer to any malicious otherworldly creatures within the Dungeons & Dragons universe. These include various races of demons and devils that are of an evil alignment and hail from the Lower Planes. All fiends are extraplanar outsiders.
Fiend may refer to:
- An evil spirit or demon in mythology
- Fiend (Dungeons & Dragons), a collective term for malicious creatures in the ''Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- Fiends (album), by Christian hardcore band Chasing Victory
- Fiend (rapper) (born 1976), rapper formerly with No Limit Records
- "Fiend" (song), a 2002 song by Coal Chamber
- Fiend Club, a fan-club for horror-punk pioneers The Misfits
- F(r)iend, a song by In Flames from the album Soundtrack to Your Escape
"Fiend" is a song by Coal Chamber, from their third album, Dark Days. It is one of the band's most well known songs and is thought to be about how the band and other bands and the nu metal genre were getting heavily criticized at the time.
Fiend is a 1980 American B movie science fiction horror film directed and written by low-budget filmmaker Don Dohler, shot in Milford, Delaware and starring Don Leifert, Elaine White, Richard Nelson, and George Stover. The film had U.S. theatrical release in September 1980.
Richard "Ricky" Jones (born May 13, 1976), better known by his stage names Fiend or International Jones, is an American rapper and producer best known for his time spent with Master P's No Limit Records. Fiend was also briefly a member of DMX's label Ruff Ryders Entertainment, and is currently signed to Jet Life Recordings under Warner Bros.
Usage examples of "fiend".
Then those High Guards had fought like fiends, inflicting appalling losses on the Mandrocs.
I have been a fiend when I thought myself the grandest of men, yea, a very avenging angel out of heaven.
Happy Valley from clientship when Uttern Carcolo, an accomplished dragon-breeder, produced the first Fiends.
For example, a common error of some police investigators is to assess a particularly lust-mutilation murder as the work of a sex fiend and to direct the investigation toward known sex offenders, when, in fact such crimes are commonly perpetrated by individuals with no criminal record.
Bestesbulzibar but realized he was powerless against the fiend, realized he had fallen to the dactyl and that he could not escape.
The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
And I will send you guerdonless to the foul fiend, if you prate of Lady Inger but one unseemly word more.
At the close of this sentence another flash of lightning again made darkness visible, and Glendower, beholding the countenance of his companion, again recoiled: for its mingled haggardness and triumph seemed to his excited imagination the very expression of a fiend!
The man who had spoken to Jorn was the fiend who had murdered Lewis Lemand and Rufus Moreland.
There Joaz Banbeck may be expected to discover you, and you must deploy so that when he brings up his Juggers you can topple them back with Fiends.
Nevertheless, the attack served its own purpose, allowing him to bring his knights, Fiends and Juggers down from Northguard before Carcolo could gain the heights of Barch Spike.
His Fiends burrowed ever deeper into the crazed and almost helpless Banbeck Juggers, while the Carcolo Murderers and Blue Horrors held back the Banbeck Fiends.
Banbeck Fiends had almost reached his Juggers, who were backing slowly, with heads lowered, fangs fully extended.
The Fiends slit its belly, and now Carcolo had only five Juggers left.
They tell how the first queen of our line had traffic with a fiend of darkness and bore him a daughter who lives in foul legendry to this day.