Cantrip

Quick meaning: Cantrip is a noun meaning A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.

Meaning

A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.

More Meanings

1. A wilful piece of trickery or mischief.
2. (roleplaying games) A minor spell, typically one that can be cast without preparation.

Example Sentences

But it sounds to me like you're in a totally different category. Not garden-variety cantrip stuff.

And when I say now the power of the name Jesus makes you whole, I indulge in no petty mountebank’s cantrips.

For one thing, I've no intention of distributing cantrips and costly crucifixes to every rapable woman in the Parish of St Magloire.

Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw’d the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light […]

Word Forms

• cantrips
• cantrap
• cantrup
• cantraip

Synonyms for cantrip

Depending on context, synonyms include enchantment, hex, spell, chantment, charm, craft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tripping, trick, tray-trip, trip, trant, shift.

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