witchlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "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."
Etymology
From witch + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more witchlike (comparative)
most witchlike (superlative)