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ogre - 11 thesaurus results
| 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, degenerate, devil, fiend, lout, monster, ogre, ruffian, savage, swine, critter, sadist, wild animal |
| Antonyms: | gentleman, humanitarian |
| Main Entry: | cannibal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beast, beastlike human |
| Synonyms: | aborigine, brute, ogre, primitive, ruffian, savage, anthropophaginian, anthropophagite, anthropophagus, bush dweller, cruel person, head-hunter, ogress |
| Main Entry: | devil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demon |
| Synonyms: | Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, Satan, adversary, bête noire, beast, brute, dastard, enfant terrible*, fiend, genie, hellion, imp, knave, monster, ogre, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, villain, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, archfiend, common enemy, diablo, djinn, dybbuk, evil one, the Erinyes, the Furies, the dickens |
| Antonyms: | angel, god |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | giant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely large person |
| Synonyms: | behemoth, bulk, cetacean, colossus, elephant*, hulk, jumbo*, mammoth, monster*, mountain*, ogre, whale*, whopper*, Hercules, cyclops, goliath, leviathan, polypheme, titan |
| Antonyms: | dwarf, midget, runt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
| Synonyms: | angry, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned*, touchy, uptight, bearish, crabbed, ireful |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | monster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giant animal; supernatural being |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, barbarian, beast, behemoth, brute, colossus, demon, devil, dragon, fiend, freak, giant, hellion, horror, mammoth, monstrosity, mutant, ogre, savage, villain, whale, Frankenstein, centaur, leviathan, lusus naturae, miscreation, phoenix, titan, werewolf |
| Main Entry: | peevish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, testy |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, childish, churlish, complaining, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, waspish, caviling, crabbed, cussed, fretting, grousing, growling, out-of-sorts, splenetic, tetchy, waspy, whining |
| Antonyms: | friendly, happy, pleasant, accepting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | troll |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elf |
| Synonyms: | demon, dwarf, giant, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, leprechaun, monster, ogre, kobold, mythical creature |
| Main Entry: | fiend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dastardly person |
| Synonyms: | Satan, barbarian, beast, brute, degenerate, demon, devil, hellion, imp, monster, ogre, savage, serpent, troll, Mephistopheles, diablo, evil spirit, little devil |
| Antonyms: | angel, friend |
| Main Entry: | sight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horrifying person or thing |
| Synonyms: | blot, eyesore, fright, mess, monstrosity, ogre, slob, spectacle, tramp, ogress, scarecrow |
| Antonyms: | beauty |
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