witchlike

Adjective

witchlike (comparative more witchlike, superlative most witchlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
   • Her sharp immovable eyes with irregular pupils, her projecting chin, her broad nose, and her yellow complexion gave Bertha's face a strange, Oriental, almost witchlike appearance; and this was not to be wondered at, because she was considered the first wise woman for a good many miles around.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 120
   • Catholic polemicist Nicholas Sander's De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani, first published in 1585, had gone through its sixth European edition in 1610: this work promotes a perception of Anne as witchlike, detailing her prodigious promiscuity as well as her physical disfigurements...1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page...

   Synonyms:

   witchish, witchly, witchy, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany, weird, wizardlike, wizardly, wizardy