sorcerous
sorcerous adjective: similar to, or involving, sorcery.
Adjective
sorcerous (not comparable)
- 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:
- mystical, sortilegious, thaumaturgic, magical, mystic, numinous, witching
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
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