Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the qualities or attributes of a wizard.
- adjective Astonishingly remarkable in design, performance, or execution; fabulous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a wizard; characteristic of a wizard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like, or suiting a
wizard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
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Examples
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The only similarity is the idea of wizardly chess, which (a.) can't be copyrighted or trademarked, and (b.) isn't original to Adrian Jacobs anyway.
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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"On June 18, Universal will be opening up a 20 acre new world within Islands of Adventure called the wizardly world of Harry Potter," said McCorrison.
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That begs the question: Is it arrogance or a sense of political imperviousness that has led him to pull back the curtain that once hid the team controlling his so-called wizardly ways.
One Woman. One Blog. 2008
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There are some interesting points in there — about how, for instance, J.K. Rowling makes her villains advocates of a kind of wizardly racial purity, but still bows to the convention of the fantasy genre by making Harry descended from magical nobility.
Dana Goldstein Joins the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare 2007
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The secret to their success is that they don't focus on the prettiest, smartest, most athletic or the most wizardly.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Should Charlie Sheen Have Made "Born On The Fourth Of July?" Michael Giltz 2011
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And then we have the old wizard, reading his wizardly tome and raising a little sprout.
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A lair for Hecataeus, wizardly master of constructs.
RPG Superstar 2009 Round 4 Open for Voting « Geek Related 2009
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A fun premise and a quick read, it's hard not to compare it to, say, other wizardly books, but what I enjoyed the most was that while a sense of danger and uncertainty existed, it was never completely doom and gloom.
Books in 2009, #23 pabba 2009
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A lair for Hecataeus, wizardly master of constructs.
RPG Superstar 2009 Round 4 Open for Voting « Geek Related 2009
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The secret to their success is that they don't focus on the prettiest, smartest, most athletic or the most wizardly.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Should Charlie Sheen Have Made "Born On The Fourth Of July?" Michael Giltz 2011
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