GORGONS Synonyms

• (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance

• ancient brass cannon

• small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a cruelly rapacious person

• a grotesque product of the imagination

• (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a living being

• a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

• an evil supernatural being

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• someone extremely diligent or skillful

• a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

• a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

• a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

• any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• an evil supernatural being

• a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

• art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

• distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

• ludicrously odd

• a malicious woman with a fierce temper

• (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman

• any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

• large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America

• trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality

• (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones

• small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• one who is playfully mischievous

• an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

• someone that is abnormally large and powerful

• a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

• a ghostly appearing figure

• something existing in perception only

• something apparently sensed but having no physical reality

• of or relating to or typical of a revenant

• a person who returns after a lengthy absence

• someone who has returned from the dead

• coming back

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a cruelly rapacious person

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• wild and menacing

• without civilizing influences

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• attack brutally and fiercely

• criticize harshly or violently

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

• an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

• a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

• a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived

• a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound

• an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

• eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

• a ghostly appearing figure