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MAGICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magical mean? 

MAGICAL (adjective)
  The adjective MAGICAL has 1 sense:

1. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powersplay

  Familiarity information: MAGICAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAGICAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

Synonyms:

charming; magic; magical; sorcerous; witching; wizard; wizardly

Context example:

wizardly powers

Similar:

supernatural (not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material)

Derivation:

magic (an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers)

magic (any art that invokes supernatural powers)


 Context examples 


You will have many magical days for love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One of my greatest fears was the Witches, for while I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the Witches were really able to do wonderful things.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

As she was hastily creeping into the hedge and was just going to pluck the flower, knowing perfectly well who the flower was, he began to play, and whether she would or not, she was forced to dance, for it was a magical dance.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Everyone will enjoy this magical point in the month, for it could transport you from your usual, everyday sense of reality into one that’s made in heaven.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On this day, Jupiter will align with Mars in your seventh house and a partner in love or business will be magical for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You have a remarkable, magical month ahead, dear Pisces.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This new cycle will last a long time—for years—so find a way to use this magical day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This ensures that March will be a magical month for love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For the attached Geminis, Valentine’s Day could turn out to be magical.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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