Words that rhyme with coeval
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devil
n 1: (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell [syn: Satan, Old Nick, Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness] 2: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 3: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" [syn: devil, deuce, dickens] 4: a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard" [syn: hellion, heller, devil] 5: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre] v 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" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil] 2: coat or stuff with a spicy paste; "devilled eggs" -
evil
adj 1: morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" [ant: good] 2: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious] 3: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil] n 1: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity] 2: that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare 3: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" [syn: evil, evilness] [ant: good, goodness] -
medieval
adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; "Medieval scholars"; "Medieval times" [syn: medieval, mediaeval] 2: as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" [syn: medieval, mediaeval, gothic] 3: characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years" [syn: chivalric, knightly, medieval] -
primeval
adj 1: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial] -
retrieval
n 1: (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory 2: the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor" 3: the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) [syn: recovery, retrieval] -
upheaval
n 1: a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" [syn: turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang] 2: a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market" [syn: convulsion, turmoil, upheaval] 3: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust] 4: disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo] -
weevil
n 1: any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles -
shrieval
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edival
See also coeval definition and coeval synonyms
