Adjective: magical
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more magical |
| Superlative | most magical |
Sample Sentences
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But the vulva is the magical wound that bleeds and heals itself every month, and because it bleeds in sympathy with the dark of the moon, the vulva is an expression not of physiology but of cosmology. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:]
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The fireworks created a magical atmosphere in that beautiful summer night.
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He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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This latest album, Too Hot To Sleep, concentrates more on his "natural" voice, which is baritone. But on those tunes where he exercises that magical falsetto, I just found myself shaking my head and saying "My, my, my!" [1981 December 5, Julie Coles, “Sylvester: Too Hot”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 12:]
Adjectives inflected like magical
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-ú-s
4. Proto-Indo-Iranian *magʰúš
5. Proto-Iranian *magúš
6. Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐏁 (m-gu-š /maguš/)bor.
7. Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos)
8. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
9. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
10. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
11. Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
12. Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós)bor.
13. Latin magicus
14. Old French magiquebor.
15. Middle English magik
16. English magic
17. English -al
18. English magical
19. From magic + -al.
Verbs referencing "magical"
Finnish Adjectives
maaginen.