witchlike

English

Etymology

witch + -like

Adjective

witchlike (comparative more witchlike, superlative most witchlike)

  1. Resembling a witch or some aspect of one.
    • 2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times:
      The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.
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