devil

1. 1.

   cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

   “Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me”

   “It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves”

   Synonymsannoyragget tobotherget atirritaterilenarknettlegravelvexchafe

   Broaderdisplease

   Narrowergeteat intopeeverufflefretharassantagonize
2. 2.

   coat or stuff with a spicy paste

   “devilled eggs”

   Broadercook

   cooking

Other forms of devil

plural

devils·

past tense or participle

devilled

present participle

devilling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about devil

What does devil mean?

devil means "(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devil?

devil has 2 syllables: dev-il. The stress falls on "dev". In IPA it is /ˈdɛvəl/.

What is another word for devil?

Close synonyms include Satan, Old Nick, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devil a common word?

devil is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with devil?

2 words rhyme with devil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.