unmagical

1 6.0

Not having magic or a feeling of wonder

adjective
/ʌnˈmædʒɪkəl/

: sin magia

She found the unmagical explanation for the strange phenomenon quite disappointing.

Examples

He described the unmagical reality of everyday life in his latest book.
Nicole looked around the room at her guests, at their confident and capable faces, at the solid and pretty furniture she owned, and the silver tableware, at the ceiling above which her sleeping children dreamed of things they had yet to learn would never happen on this unmagical earth.

Fiction book (1995)
I am going to make such an unmagical response to that.
Maybe what was magical about it was that the pair of them together were so unmagical.

Blog text (9)
The party felt unmagical without music and laughter, leaving everyone feeling a bit dull.

Synonyms

unpoetical

vsunmagical

7.0

Not showing beauty, imagination, or strong feeling

emphasizes absence of enchantment and sense of wonder rather than artistic beauty

Antonyms

magical

156 3.8

Having powers that people say come from witches or wizards

enchanting

22 3.7

Very attractive in a way that feels like magic

How Magical

enchanted

48 5.6

magical

156 3.8

ordinary

5 2.0

unmagical

1 6.0

Surface Forms

unmagical positive

Morphology

unmagical = magical (transparent) = un + magic + al

The adjective 'unmagical' is formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to 'magical', so its meaning 'not magical' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word unmagical is made from un- meaning 'not' and magic, the same root you see in magician. So it means 'not full of magic' or 'without wonder'.