DEMIGODS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

demigods

noun

plural of demigod

as in spirits

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Noun

Vallow Daybell holds doomsday religious beliefs and has claimed that people in her life were possessed by evil spirits.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
This can be especially uncomfortable when the prevailing narrative holds its own special significance, but pondering such complexities strengthens our minds and our spirits.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of spirits

Noun

But when the late Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Tony Blair and other dignitaries gathered at Westminster Abbey for a service of commemoration, the proceedings were interrupted by a Black man wearing a dashiki.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Yarbrough, who died at age 76 on Saturday, would be stationed at the table throughout the GHSA playoffs, sometimes welcoming guests and dignitaries and otherwise answering questions and solving problems.

— Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of dignitaries

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In 1974 the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons first appeared, and later editions featured such character types as devils and demons.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Other popular depictions of ghouls conflated them with monsters such as zombies and demons.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of demons

Noun

Alexander’s sentiment was shared by the Mellon Foundation’s leaders, who commissioned a study on the nation’s commemorative works that found, among other things, that 50% of monuments were in honor of people who owned other people.

— Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
All three of the sneakrs come in a special box with an illustrated map that adds even more local monuments, as well as insole bearing the same graphic.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of monuments

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His garment is sunlit and he is surrounded by blue sky populated with angels and saints who seem to be in movement, floating on the breezes of the high mountain air.

— Artforum, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026
None of Wiseman’s institutional portraits have the voices of angels talking to the guy in charge.

— Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of angels

Noun

Baitz’s story is set in Palm Springs, in December, 2004, at the home of Polly and Lyman Wyeth, an opulent sandstone aerie with meditative views of the desert, a massive Christmas tree, and portraits of eminences like Barry Goldwater.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
These speakers join previously announced eminences from Amazon, Calm, Contextual AI, CoreWeave, Databricks, DataSnipper, Exelon, Glean, Google, Intuit, Rivian, and Serve Robotics.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025

Definition of eminences

Noun

During the reign of the Inca Empire, which spanned a large territory in western South America from the 13th to the 16th centuries, children and young women were regularly sacrificed to important gods in a ceremony known as capacocha.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
The war between the Greek gods and the Titans is looming in the first full-length trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of gods

Noun

The capacocha, in which children and young women were sacrificed to Inca deities, was one of the most sacred rituals of the South American civilization, which existed from the 13th to the 16th century.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2026
While many Hindus worship Rama, Sita and Hanuman as deities, Hindu nationalists have also presented Rama as a historical figure – the legendary ruler of the ancient kingdom of Ayodhya.

— Sohini Sarah Pillai, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

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