Synonyms of the word witch


WITCHBECHARM - BELDAM - BELDAME - BEWITCH - CHARM - CRONE - ENCHANT - ENCHANTRESS - GLAMOUR - HAG - HEX - JINX - OCCULTIST - PAGAN

witch

  • n. A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or (archaic outside dialects and Wicca) man who practices witchcraft.
  • n. (derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
  • n. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
  • n. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
  • n. (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  • n. The stormy petrel.
  • n. Any of a number of flatfish.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To bewitch.
  • v. (transitive) To dowse for water.
  • n. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.

becharm

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.

beldam

  • n. Alternative spelling of beldame.

beldame

  • n. (obsolete) A grandmother.
  • n. (now archaic) An old woman, particularly an ugly one.

bewitch

  • v. to cast a spell on someone or something.
  • v. to astonish, amaze.

charm

  • n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
  • n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
  • n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
  • n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
  • v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
  • v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
  • v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
  • n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
  • n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

crone

  • n. (obsolete) An old woman.
  • n. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  • n. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
  • n. (obsolete) An old ewe.
  • n. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.

enchant

  • v. To attract and delight, to charm.
  • v. To cast a spell over.

enchantress

  • n. An attractive woman skilled at using magic; an alluring witch.
  • n. A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.
  • n. A femme fatale.

glamour

  • n. (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
  • n. Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really…
  • n. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
  • n. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear…
  • n. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
  • v. (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.

hag

  • n. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
  • n. (pejorative) An ugly old woman.
  • n. A fury; a she-monster.
  • n. A hagfish; an eel-like marine marsipobranch, Myxine glutinosa, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial…
  • n. A hagdon or shearwater.
  • n. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
  • n. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
  • n. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been…
  • n. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
  • v. (transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.

hex

  • v. To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
  • n. An evil spell or curse.
  • n. A witch.
  • n. (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
  • n. (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
  • n. A hexagonal space on a game board.
  • n. (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other…

jinx

  • n. A hex; an evil spell.
  • n. A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
  • v. (transitive) To cast a spell on.
  • v. (transitive) To bring bad luck to.
  • interj. Used after the same response is said by two people simultaneously. Often, a game is played where the person…

occultist

  • n. A person who dabbles in or practises occultism.

pagan

  • adj. Relating to, characteristic of or adhering to non-Abrahamist religions, (i.e. Christianity, Judaism, and…
  • adj. (by extension, pejorative) Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.
  • n. A person not adhering to any major or recognized religion, especially a heathen or non-Abrahamist (i.e…
  • n. (by extension, pejorative, politically incorrect) An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
  • n. (pejorative, politically incorrect) Especially an unruly, badly educated child.

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