GORGONS Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the word gorgons. (close relations)
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| banshees | nounn | |||||
noun • (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | ||||||
| basilisks | nounn | |||||
noun • (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance • ancient brass cannon • small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | ||||||
| beasts | nounn | |||||
noun • a living organism characterized by voluntary movement • a cruelly rapacious person | ||||||
| chimeras | nounn | |||||
noun • a grotesque product of the imagination • (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon | ||||||
| creatures | nounn | |||||
noun • a living organism characterized by voluntary movement • a living being • a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | ||||||
| demons | nounn | |||||
noun • an evil supernatural being • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • someone extremely diligent or skillful | ||||||
| dragons | nounn | |||||
noun • a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus • a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings • a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman • any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body | ||||||
| fiends | nounn | |||||
noun • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • an evil supernatural being • a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | ||||||
| grotesques | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants adjective satellite • distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous • ludicrously odd | ||||||
| harpies | nounn | |||||
noun • a malicious woman with a fierce temper • (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman • any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes • large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America | ||||||
| hydras | nounn | |||||
noun • trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality • (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones • small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp • a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer | ||||||
| imps | nounn | |||||
noun • (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous • one who is playfully mischievous | ||||||
| monsters | nounn | |||||
noun • an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts • someone that is abnormally large and powerful • a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | ||||||
| ogres | nounn | |||||
noun • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings | ||||||
| phantoms | nounn | |||||
noun • a ghostly appearing figure • something existing in perception only adjective satellite • something apparently sensed but having no physical reality | ||||||
| revenants | nounn | |||||
adjective • of or relating to or typical of a revenant noun • a person who returns after a lengthy absence • someone who has returned from the dead adjective satellite • coming back | ||||||
| savages | nounn | |||||
noun • a member of an uncivilized people • a cruelly rapacious person adjective satellite • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering • wild and menacing • without civilizing influences • marked by extreme and violent energy verb • attack brutally and fiercely • criticize harshly or violently | ||||||
| serpents | nounn | |||||
noun • limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous • a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited • an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | ||||||
| sirens | nounn | |||||
noun • a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive • a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived • a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound • an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning • eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills | ||||||
| specters | nounn | |||||
noun • a mental representation of some haunting experience • a ghostly appearing figure | ||||||
