| Main Entry: | incubus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil spirit |
Synonyms: |
demon, devil, fiend, goblin, hobgoblin, nightmare, succuba, succubus |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest, concern |
Synonyms: |
affliction, aggravation, alarm, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, bother, burden, chagrin, charge, consternation, discomposure, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, fretfulness, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, perplexity, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | demon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil, devilish being or influence |
Synonyms: |
Satan, archfiend, beast, brute, fiend, goblin, hellion, imp, incubus, little devil, malignant spirit, monster, rascal, rogue, succubus, vampire, villain |
Antonyms: |
angel, god |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith |
Antonyms: |
actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
| Main Entry: | load |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden, pressure |
Synonyms: |
affliction, albatross, care, charge, cumber, deadweight, drag, drain, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, incubus, liability, millstone, obligation, onus, oppression, responsibility, task, tax, trouble, trust, weight, worry |
Antonyms: |
benefit, blessing |
| Main Entry: | nightmare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad dream or experience |
Synonyms: |
dream, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, horror, illusion, incubus, ordeal, phantasm, succubus, torment, trial, tribulation, vision |
Antonyms: |
daymare |
| Main Entry: | onus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
bar sinister, black eye, blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, culpability, deadweight, duty, encumbrance, fault, guilt, incubus, liability, load, millstone, obligation, odium, oppression, responsibility, slur, spot, stain, stigma, task, tax, weight |
Antonyms: |
aid, benefit, blessing, help |
| Main Entry: | responsibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accountability, blame |
Synonyms: |
albatross, amenability, answerability, authority, boundness, burden, care, charge, constraint, contract, culpability, duty, encumbrance, engagement, fault, guilt, holding the bag, importance, incubus, incumbency, liability, obligation, obligatoriness, onus, pledge, power, rap, restraint, subjection, trust |
Antonyms: |
exemption, freedom, immunity, irresponsibility |
| Main Entry: | phantasma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, head trip, idea, illusion, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, phantasm, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow*, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, vision, wraith |
| Concept: | Demon. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
demon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus Eblis, shaitan, succubus and succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy; Friar Rush., vampire, ghoul; afreet, barghest, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia; bogie, bogle; nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp., [Supernatural appearance] ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin; wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures; evil eye., merman, mermaid, merfolk; siren; satyr, faun; manito, manitou, manitu.
-adjectives
supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral; ghostly, ghost-like; elfin, elfish, elflike; fiendish, fiend-like; impish, demoniacal; haunted; pokerish [U.S.]
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