Definition of WIZARD

wizard

Plural: wizards

Noun

  • A man who practices magic, a sorcerer.
  • someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
  • one who practices magic or sorcery
  • Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
  • One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
  • A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
  • One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.
  • A wise man; a sage.
  • A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.

Adjective Satellite

  • possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; ; ; ; - Shakespeare
    • "wizard wands"
    • "wizardly powers"

Adj

  • Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).

Verb

  • To practice wizardry.
  • To conjure.

Examples

  • He felt like a WIZARD conjuring words from thin air on the Scrabble board.
  • He was a financial wizard, capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets.
  • The wizard conjured up a large fireball.
  • Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún)).
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.

Scrabble Score: 19

wizard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
wizard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wizard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

wizard: valid Words With Friends Word