demoniac
/dɪˈməʊnɪak/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Possessed or controlled by a demon.
adj
Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
Example Sentences
- "How dark may be the hiding of God's face, Or what demoniac forms may seize the helm Of reason..."
- "Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell."
- "There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs."
- "The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […]."
Etymology
From Middle English demoniak et al., from Old French demoniaque, from Late Latin daemoniacus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: demoniak, demoniaque, daemoniacus
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˈməʊnɪak/
Inflected Forms
more demoniac (comparative)
most demoniac (superlative)
daemoniac (alternative)
dæmoniac (alternative)
demoniacs (plural)