demon

IPA: dˈimʌn

An evil supernatural spirit.
An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
(now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
(in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
A neutral supernatural spirit.
A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
(physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: A quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
(computing) Alternative spelling of daemon [An idea depicted as an entity.]
Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”) [An evil supernatural spirit.]

Examples of "demon" in Sentences

Maybe Myles understood, even if he refused to utter the word demon.
There are times when you just have to let whatever demon is troubling you inside out and there are times to take meds that will stop the flow.
Heh, well, I don't know what a demon is suppose to look like, but viruses and bacteria eating my flesh and innards, and making me sick, sure fits the bill nicely.
Plato tells us that this intimation, which he spoke of as his demon, never prompted him to any act, but occasionally interfered to prevent him or his friends from proceeding in any thing that would have been attended with injurious consequences.