1
2
: a person extremely devoted to a pursuit or study : fanatic
a golf fiend
3
: addict sense 1
a dope fiend
4
: wizard sense 2
a fiend at mathematics
Examples of fiend in a Sentence
His hands were trembling, actually trembling, as if he were some sort of coffee fiend or something.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
Recent Examples on the Web
Both earnest viewers and splatter-drunk genre fiends can get excited by the deaths of characters who’ve been given some shading.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Even so, that dimmer wattage does little to dull a film that plays like cine-karaoke — and as any mic fiend can attest, the glory in those moments belongs not to the singer, but the song.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
But caffeine fiends beware: The only way to get coffee here is to head to the reception desk and make it in an espresso machine.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 4 May 2025
But there’s more going on in this case beyond this particular freeloading foreign fiend trying to stay on the dole forever.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Even so, that dimmer wattage does little to dull a film that plays like cine-karaoke — and as any mic fiend can attest, the glory in those moments belongs not to the singer, but the song.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
But caffeine fiends beware: The only way to get coffee here is to head to the reception desk and make it in an espresso machine.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 4 May 2025
But there’s more going on in this case beyond this particular freeloading foreign fiend trying to stay on the dole forever.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Fiend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiend. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
Copy CitationKids Definition
fiend
noun1
2
: an extremely wicked or cruel person
3
a
: a person enthusiastically devoted to something
fiendish
adjective
ˈfēn-dish
fiendishly
adverb
fiendishness
noun
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