AFREETS Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

afreets

noun

variants or afrits

plural of afreet

as in ghouls

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Noun

Night of the Living Dead centers all the action at a farmhouse, where seven people attempt to ward off the ghouls — without any prior knowledge of how to do so.

— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of ghouls

Noun

But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 18 June 2026
In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025

Definition of jinn

Noun

And then there was Schmeichel, raised in a Copenhagen tower block, the son of a Polish jazz musician who battled his demons for years.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Alice, meanwhile, is wrestling with demons of her own, searching for solutions that feel impossible to reach within the bounds of what’s acceptable.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 July 2026

Definition of demons

Noun

Over the course of 22 episodes, the Doomies crew encounters vampires, parasitic demons, vicious mermaids, and some spirits specific to French folklore, all rendered as real threats towards our heroes.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
So far, this season has been a heady ritual of self-interrogation and self-deception for both vampires.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 July 2026

Definition of vampires

Noun

While humanity knows about superheroes like Spider-Man (hence, the events of the previous games), mutants are still largely living in the shadows.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Lancelot, noticeably weary, impassive, and preoccupied atop an equally weary black horse, follows the sorcerer, while Merlin leads him up the path into the realm of shadows, out of the frame to the left.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Definition of shadows

Noun

Rooms Thanks to a semi-recent renovation in 2018, The Coonamessett’s 29 rooms and suites capture all the charm of Old Cape Cod with none of the ghosts.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Trouble is, the place is haunted by racist ghosts (Stranger Things’ Brett Gelman and Ari Dayan) with dark motives of their own.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 July 2026

Definition of ghosts

Noun

Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026
In Harrenhal, Aemond is plagued by nightmares of his (not) dead brother dragging him to hell.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Definition of nightmares

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