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wizard

wizard

99 4.7
A person who is very skilled at a particular job or task
  • noun
  • /ˈwɪzərd/
  • Informal
translation icon : genio
  • "I am young, wizard, and the last of my long and distinguished line."
  • a financial wizard

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

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Examples

  • 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

genius
vswizard
252 4.9

A person with very strong intelligence or creative skill

emphasizes intellectual creativity rather than dazzling practical skill and ingenuity
hotshot
vswizard
  • Informal
71 7.0

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

focuses more on clever inventive skill rather than social reputation
ace
vswizard
65 4.5

A person who is very good at a particular activity

tends to stress top performance more than inventive brilliance
whiz
vswizard
  • Informal
43 7.3

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

shows dazzling ingenuity and inventive skill rather than just success
wiz
vswizard
  • Informal
17 8.6

A person who is very skilled at a task or subject

carries more sense of dazzling ingenuity and creative problem solving
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
maven
vswizard
11 8.4

A person who knows a lot about one subject

is more about striking inventive skill rather than purely being knowledgeable
adept
vswizard
3 4.7

A person who is very skilled at something

emphasizes a more dazzling inventive flair rather than steady proficiency
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
wizardess
vswizard
  • Informal
9.0

A woman who is very skilled at a task

is the non gendered general term for a dazzling skilled person
whizzer
vswizard
  • Slang
7.2

A person who is very skilled at a particular activity

adds an element of dazzling creativity and clever problem solving

Antonyms

amateur
122 2.8

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

novice
46 3.4

A person new to an activity who has little experience

How Skilled

genius
252 4.9
wizard
  • Informal
99 4.7
expert
∞ 3.2
specialist
352 3.9
practitioner
120 4.0
novice
46 3.4

Surface Forms

wizard singular
wizards plural

Morphology

wizard = wise (semi-transparent) = wiz + ard

The sense 'expert' can be plausibly inferred as an extension of 'wise', but it is figurative rather than strictly compositional.

Etymology

Wizard uses the root wise ('wise') and the part -ard ('a person'), so it can mean someone very clever or skilled at something. That's why we call a top programmer or a maths expert a 'wizard'—they are like a very 'wise' person in their field.