wizard

Examples

• All

• Today, they can become financial wizards or software engineers and take home ever-larger proportions of the national wealth.

  Academic text (2012)

• You're a great wizard, and I'll sing your praises everywhere I go.

  Fiction book (1999)

• And I love your, your wizard with words, brother.

• I'm not that good of a wizard, but I am a wizard.

  Smosh Pit

• Will the world's greatest wizard come forward, please?

  Conan the Destroyer (1984)

• But you know, it's the wizard who's going to solve the problems, right?

• He's a wizard.

  Coneheads (1993)

• Indeed, investigative files depict Lyons as a public relations wizard, adept at using race and religion to his own advantage.

  Academic text (2000)

• You know, Bob Caro, David McCullough, they're, they're Wizards when they come to archive.

• The engineer is a wizard at designing complex software systems that improve efficiency.

Synonyms

G

genius

vswizard

694 4.9

A person with very strong intelligence or creative skill

emphasizes intellectual creativity rather than dazzling practical skill and ingenuity

H

hotshot

vswizard

• Informal

51 7.0

A person who is very skilled and often admired at their job

focuses more on clever inventive skill rather than social reputation

A

ace

vswizard

44 4.5

A person who is very good at a particular activity

tends to stress top performance more than inventive brilliance

W

whiz

vswizard

• Informal

38 7.3

A person who is very skilled at something like math or computers

shows dazzling ingenuity and inventive skill rather than just success

V

virtuoso

vswizard

12 8.0

A person with very great skill, often in music or art

applies to dazzling skill across many fields not only arts

M

maven

vswizard

10 8.4

A person who knows a lot about one subject

is more about striking inventive skill rather than purely being knowledgeable

W

wiz

vswizard

• Informal

8 8.6

A person who is very skilled at a task or subject

carries more sense of dazzling ingenuity and creative problem solving

A

adept

vswizard

4 4.7

A person who is very skilled at something

emphasizes a more dazzling inventive flair rather than steady proficiency

W

whizzer

vswizard

• Slang

1 7.2

A person who is very skilled at a particular activity

adds an element of dazzling creativity and clever problem solving

M

mavin

vswizard

• US

1 9.9

A person who knows a lot about a subject and advises others

leans more toward dazzling creative skill rather than knowledge alone

W

wizardess

vswizard

• Informal

1 9.0

A woman who is very skilled at a task

is the non gendered general term for a dazzling skilled person

Antonyms

A

amateur

132 2.8

A person who does an activity like a sport or hobby for pleasure, not as a job

N

novice

51 3.4

A person new to an activity who has little experience

How Skilled

genius

694 4.9

wizard

• Informal

41 4.7

expert

∞ 3.2

specialist

267 3.9

practitioner

108 4.0

to apprentice

8 4.1

novice

51 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology