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| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
| Synonyms: | alchemy, astrology, augury, black art, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, sleight of hand, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, trickery, voodoo, witchcraft, allurement, bewitchment, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, prestidigitation, rune, soothsaying, thaumaturgy, voodooism, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | magic/magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching, charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | normal, unmoving |
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| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
magic, Pythian, adumbrative, aeaeae, apocalyptic, apotropaic, attuned, beatific, blessed, blissed, celestial, chaldean, charmed, chimerical, deep, devoid, disembodied, divine, eerie, elevated, ethereal, evanescent, exalted, existential, extrasensory, fatidic, hagborn, hermetic, holy, hypnotic, imaginary, incantatory, integrated, magical, mantic, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, oneiric, orphic, pacific, paranormal, phylacteric, positive, preternatural, psychedelic, psychic, realized, sacred, sensitive, sibylline, spellbound, stoicheiotical, sublime, supernal, supernatural, supersensible, supreme, surrealistic, talismanic, telestically, thaumaturgical, touched, transcendental, tuned, uncanny, unfamiliar, unimaginable, unreal, vatic, weird
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| Main Entry: | alchemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medieval science |
| Synonyms: | black magic, magic, sorcery, witchcraft, black arts, hermetics, pseudo science, thaumaturgy, wizardry |
| Notes: | occamy was an alloy imitating silver, the counterpart to alchemy, alloy imitating gold |
| Main Entry: | black magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witchcraft or sorcery |
| Synonyms: | black art, magic, mysticism, necromancy, sorcery, voodoo, witchcraft, Satanism, demon worship, demonianism, diabolism, witchery, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | fascination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong interest |
| Synonyms: | allure, appeal, attraction, bug*, charisma, charm, enchantment, glamour, hang-up*, lure, magic, magnetism, obsession, piquancy, power, pull*, sorcery, spell, thing*, trance, witchcraft, enthrallment, grabber, thing for, witchery |
| Antonyms: | boredom, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse, spell |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, allure, charm, double whammy, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus*, jinx, magic, magic spell, mumbo jumbo*, sorcery, voodoo*, whammy*, bewitching, bewitchment, conjuration, hexing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam*, fraud, gibberish, hoax, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, monkey business, mumbo jumbo*, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, open sesame*, rigmarole*, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery, conjuring, gobbledegook*, hocus, magic words, mummery, mystification, occultism |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | magnetism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charm, attractiveness |
| Synonyms: | allure, appeal, attraction, charisma, draw, enchantment, fascination, glamour, hypnotism, influence, lure, magic, power, pull, spell, witchcraft, captivatingness, drawing power, mesmerism, seductiveness, witchery |
| Antonyms: | repugnance, repulsion |
| Main Entry: | mystic/mystical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, esoteric |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | knowable, natural, palpable, undisguised |
| Main Entry: | mystique |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's strong impression |
| Synonyms: | attitude, awe, character, charisma, charm, complex, fascination, glamour, magic, nature, spell, temperament |
| Main Entry: | necromancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sorcery |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, alchemy, black art, black magic, charm, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus*, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo*, mysticism, spell, voodoo, witchcraft, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry, occultism, thaumaturgy, witchery, witching, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | occult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, secret; supernatural |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, deep, eerie, esoteric, hermetic, hidden, invisible, magic, magical, mystic, mystical, obscure, preternatural, profound, psychic, recondite, unearthly, unknown, veiled, weird, acroamatic, orphic, transmundane, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | known, natural |
| Main Entry: | sorcery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black magic, witchcraft |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, alchemy, black art, charm, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus*, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo*, necromancy, spell, voodoo, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry, hoodoo, thaumaturgy, witchery, witching, wizardry |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whammy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spell |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, charm, curse, double whammy, evil eye, hex, hocus-pocus*, jinx, magic, voodoo, conjuration, hexing, mumbo-jumbo, triple whammy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magic, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull |
| Main Entry: | mystic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, esoteric, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, mystical, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, witchlike, wizardly |
| Main Entry: | black art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in magic spells |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, black magic, magic, magic, necromancy, sorcery, voodoo, witchcraft, black hocus-pocus, occultism, spell-casting, witchery, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | sleight of hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceptive skill |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, deceit, deception, double-dealing, hocus-pocus, legerdemain, magic, smoke and mirrors, trickery, conjuration, escamotage, prestidigitation |
| Main Entry: | charm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enchantment, allure |
| Synonyms: | appeal, attraction, beauty, charisma, fascination, glamour, grace, lure, magic, magnetism, pizzazz*, something*, sorcery, spell, agreeableness, allurement, attractiveness, bewitchery, chemistry, conjuration, delightfulness, desirability, it, star quality, witchery |
| Antonyms: | repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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