Witchlike

Quick meaning: Witchlike is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a witch.

Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a witch.

Example Sentences

The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.

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.

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 (Warnicke 247).

Synonyms for witchlike

Depending on context, synonyms include witchish, witchly, witchy, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supernatural, witchly, witchcrafty, wizardlike, wraithy, wisplike.

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