| Main Entry: | ogre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty person |
Synonyms: |
demon, devil, fiend, giant, monster, monstrosity, specter, troll |
Antonyms: |
humanitarian, philanthropist |
| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barbarian |
Synonyms: |
animal, beast, cannibal, creature, critter, degenerate, devil, fiend, lout, monster, ogre, ruffian, sadist, savage, swine, wild animal |
Antonyms: |
gentleman, humanitarian |
| Main Entry: | cannibal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beast, beastlike human |
Synonyms: |
aborigine, anthropophaginian, anthropophagite, anthropophagus, brute, bush dweller, cruel person, head-hunter, ogre, ogress, primitive, ruffian, savage |
| Main Entry: | devil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demon |
Synonyms: |
Beelzebub, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Prince of Darkness, Satan, adversary, archfiend, beast, brute, bête noire, common enemy, dastard, diablo, djinn, dybbuk, enfant terrible, evil one, fiend, genie, hellion, imp, knave, monster, ogre, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, the Erinyes, the Furies, the dickens, villain |
Antonyms: |
angel, god |
| Main Entry: | fiend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dastardly person |
Synonyms: |
Mephistopheles, Satan, barbarian, beast, brute, degenerate, demon, devil, diablo, evil spirit, hellion, imp, little devil, monster, ogre, savage, serpent, troll |
Antonyms: |
angel, friend |
| Main Entry: | giant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely large person |
Synonyms: |
Hercules, behemoth, bulk, cetacean, colossus, cyclops, elephant, goliath, hulk, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster*, mountain*, ogre, polypheme, titan, whale, whopper |
Antonyms: |
dwarf, midget, runt |
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
Synonyms: |
angry, bearish, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | monster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giant animal; supernatural being |
Synonyms: |
Frankenstein, abnormality, barbarian, beast, behemoth, brute, centaur, colossus, demon, devil, dragon, fiend, freak, giant, hellion, horror, leviathan, lusus naturae, mammoth, miscreation, monstrosity, mutant, ogre, phoenix, savage, titan, villain, werewolf, whale |
| Main Entry: | peevish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, testy |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, childish, churlish, complaining, crabbed, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, cussed, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, fretting, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, out-of-sorts, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy, touchy, ugly, waspish, waspy, whining |
Antonyms: |
accepting, friendly, happy, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | sight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horrifying person or thing |
Synonyms: |
blot, eyesore, fright, mess, monstrosity, ogre, ogress, scarecrow, slob, spectacle, tramp |
Antonyms: |
beauty |
