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sorcerous

sorcerous adjective: similar to, or involving, sorcery.

Adjective

sorcerous (not comparable)

  1. Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
    • 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...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...
    • 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 Pitchfork

Synonyms of sorcerous

All synonyms of sorcerous

Origin of sorcerous

From sorcery + -ous.

Words formed from sorcerous

Questions about sorcerous

What does sorcerous mean?
Sorcerous means similar to, or involving, sorcery.
What part of speech is sorcerous?
Sorcerous is an adjective.

Words near sorcerous in the dictionary

  1. sorcerizes
  2. sorcerizing
  3. Sorcerman
  4. sorceror
  5. sorcerors
  6. sorcerous
  7. sorcerously
  8. sorcery
  9. Sorces
  10. Sorcha
  11. Sorci

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