magical

[maj-i-kuhl]

adjective

1. produced by or as if by magic.

   The change in the appearance of the room was magical.

2. mysteriously enchanting.

   a magical night.

3. of or relating to magic.

Other Word Forms

• magically adverb
• hypermagical adjective
• hypermagically adverb
• quasi-magical adjective
• quasi-magically adverb
• semimagical adjective
• semimagically adverb
• unmagical adjective
• unmagically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of magical¹

First recorded in 1545–55; magic + -al ¹

Example Sentences

And he never knew that, unlike the verdict of an early viewer who dismissed his paintings as “mere legerdemain,” today they are seen as magical in a positive sense.

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“I wasn’t alone in having intense and even magical feelings about the things I cooked and ate with.”

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Therapy, mediation or sitting down in a neutral environment with a list of issues that you want to resolve can have magical outcomes.

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By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.

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“Wicked: For Good” takes us to a magical place where we witness wonders seldom if ever encountered in reality: a talking lion, flying monkeys, a woman forgiving a friend who steals her fiancé.

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Related Words

• eerie 
• enchanted 
• enchanting 
• extraordinary 
• fascinating 
• magic 
• marvelous 
• miraculous 
• mysterious 
• mythical 
• otherworldly 
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• spooky 
• uncanny 
• unusual 
• weird 
• wonderful