Meanings
- not comparableSimilar to, or involving, sorcery.
That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.
2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork1 more example
Part toy box and part cabinet of curiosities for a young misfit finally finding his tribe, the house has competition only from Black, who always excels in roles that let him play an excitable kid in a grown man’s body, and does so here as the bumbling, sorcerous Uncle Jonathan, forever knocking things over[…]
2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018Synonyms: mystical, sortilegious, thaumaturgic, magical, mystic, mystical, numinous, sortilegious
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSimilar to, or involving, sorcery.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivepossessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishsorcery
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englishsorcerous
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