Meaning & use
Fiends
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Evil spirits or demons, or, informally, people who are extremely wicked or intensely devoted to a habit or activity.
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In the old legend, fiends were said to haunt the abandoned castle at night.
The two brothers were coffee fiends who couldn't function without their morning cup.
A note on using this word
The informal sense of "fiend" as an enthusiast, as in "a fiend for chocolate," developed from the older, more sinister meaning of an evil being consumed by desire.
Words with a similar meaning
demonsdevils
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Words with an opposite meaning
angels
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