Definition of wizard in English:

wizard

noun ˈwɪzədˈwɪzərd

1(in legends and fairy tales) a man who has magical powers.
Example sentencesExamples
- While reference is made to their role as teachers they most often appear as wizards, with the power to influence the elements and to predict the future.
- All the higher wizards, mages and sorcerers were wiped out.
- The power that wizards commanded was the stuff of legends.
- He had only seen this on those fantasy movies about wizards and magical creatures.
- The eyes of the two men were held on the still hovering crystals as they once again began to pulsate with a mysterious power beyond the wizards' imaginations.
- Then we come along, power hungry wizards looking for the secret to immortality, and we bag you.
- Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures.
- There were four ranks a person could be - witch or wizard, mage, enchanter or enchantress, and sorcerer or sorceress.
- The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power.
- The people of Audrill were also magical but they could not combat the power of a wizard.
- The wizard's power was strong beneath the youthful appearance.
- The wizards' magical attacks were slowly building to a level that would be fatal to Solomon.
- We want there to be Gandalfs and Elronds and Galadriels in the world, wise old wizards and sages and sorcerers who are looking out for the rest of us.
- Raised by his mean aunt and uncle, he learns on his 11 th birthday that he is a wizard of uncommon powers.
- A portal gate is a form of transportation used by those who possess magical abilities such as wizards or magicians.
- He's certainly going to have to be a magical wizard to put United back in the black again.
- Many casters such as wizards, necromancers or enchanters were best paired with a cleric because after casting, a cleric could mend the internal wounds.
- For the first time, J.K. Rowling's novel proceeds in a manner that assumes that the reader is more or less familiar with her magical world of wizards and witchcraft.
- To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the Empress uses to control gold dragons, offsetting the magical power of the wizards.
- Every race has magical and non magical people, these could be wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, or sorceresses.
Synonyms
sorcerer, warlock, male witch, magus, (black) magician, necromancer, occultist, enchanter
Irish pishogue
archaic mage
rare thaumaturge, thaumaturgist
1. 1.1 A person who is very skilled in a particular field or activity.
  奇才，能手，行家
  a financial wizard
  金融奇才。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike my aged grandmothers, Casella is a wizard with beans, which he grows with tender care on an organic plot upstate.
  A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
  Jerry Miculek is a fine rifleman, a wizard with a shotgun and adept with any type of handgun.
  You might even end up being just like Compton - a tall well-built hero with matinee-idol looks and a wizard with the willow.
  Karl Barlow was a wizard with paperwork and identity fraud.
  He was a wizard with the ball and he could shoot also.
  He developed special radio frequency probes and was a wizard with an acupuncture needle.
  It was launched by an engineering wizard with a fascination for radio.
  The Dow continues to head south, with Alan Greenspan, the one-time wizard with the Midas touch, experiencing a torrid time.
  Our house's previous owner was a wizard with perennials and it was a thrill our first spring there to watch the yard be transformed by unexpected blossoms.
  He also found Norman Heatley, a laboratory wizard with great dexterity in micromethods.
  The first is that economists and financial wizards got it wrong.
  A mathematical wizard with his name firmly stamped in the Limca Book of Records.
  He's a wizard with a wrench though, and he always helps me out with repairs.
  Acknowledged to be a wizard with the science, Javed has his own salons in many a happening place.
  The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented.
  The centre-half forward, as much a wizard with an accordion as a caman, thundered the ball away from MacNiven and it sailed into the net.
  Neil Hann, our production editor, is a computer wizard with the patience of Job.
  Another of my friends, Patrick, was a wizard with his daggers.
  They include hoteliers, brewery giants, food specialists, financial wizards, recycling experts and transport logicists.
  Synonyms
  genius, expert, master, adept, virtuoso, maestro, past master, marvel, prodigy
  star
  German wunderkind
  informal hotshot, demon, wiz, whizz, whizz-kid, alpha geek, ninja, buff, old hand, pro, ace, something else, something to shout about, something to write home about
  British informal dab hand
  North American informal maven, crackerjack
  rare proficient
2Computing
A help feature of a software package that automates complex tasks by asking the user a series of easy-to-answer questions.
〔计算机〕向导
Example sentencesExamples
- Administration of digital certificates is also handled by the graphical user interface wizard.
- These capabilities should be easy to configure and manage through graphical user interfaces and wizards.
- A web site can have novice users, and a wizard makes complex tasks seem easy.
- A software wizard takes users through the activation process.
- Straightforward wizards guide users through hard disk and Internet browser cleanups.
- Digital cameras and camcorders are well catered for, with installation wizards and simple editing software.
- If you own a modern computer, you will know there is a maintenance wizard in your windows software.

adjective ˈwɪzədˈwɪzərd

British dated, informal

Wonderful; excellent.
〈非正式，旧，主英〉卓越的，杰出的，极好的，奇妙的
how absolutely wizard!
I've just had a wizard idea
Example sentencesExamples
- Bloomsbury shares would be a wizard idea for a present.
- If elected, I will appoint Buni as my Shadow Education Secretary, on the strength of this wizard idea of his in Peter's comments box.
- A wizard idea that Steven's ambitious deputy may find hard.
- That's what someone over here said a few centuries ago and everyone thought it to be a jolly wizard idea.
Synonyms
excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding

Derivatives

wizardly

adjective

Susan Stroman, the hyperkinetic director-choreographer behind the current Broadway hits Contact and The Music Man, is at her wizardly best here, keeping the stage whirling and alive.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rather, The Sixth Sense achieved the elevation of cultural phenomenon because of a wizardly directorial effort by newcomer M. Night Shyamalan.
- Otherwise things are not so very different for Harry and his wizardly chums.
- Call yourself a graphic designer and you're identified as an artsy computer geek being hired to spice up a document with your wizardly technical skill.
- Not that there's anything satanic in his wizardly dabblings with cauldrons and broomsticks.
- This is where he had come to pass his worldly, as well as wizardly, knowledge onto Ereana, who, at that moment, was jumping out of the courtyard window without hesitation, tearing her long skirt on thorny rosebushes as she did so.
- I don't want to think about what the Mousla could gain from wizardly knowledge.
- President Johnson promised a War on Poverty, driven by a wizardly new Keynesian confidence that an economy of unprecedented abundance could deliver more groceries to everyone.
- Who can begrudge the rewards for three epic movies that were seven years in the making, and combined Tolkien's wizardly storytelling with the cutting edge of new technology?
- But you get the feeling that the wizardly manchild is indefatigable.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'philosopher, sage'): from wise¹ + -ard.

witch from Old English:
In Anglo-Saxon times witches were of both sexes. The masculine form was wicca, which is the source of wicked, and has also been revived in recent times by modern pagans as the name of their religion, Wicca. A female witch was a wicce. A male witch would now be called a wizard (Late Middle English), a word that comes from wise—in the Middle Ages wizards were wise men or sages, only becoming magicians in the mid 16th century. See also warlock. The witching hour is midnight, the time when witches are active. The phrase is from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet himself declares: Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world.’ George Orwell was the first to use witch-hunt to mean ‘a campaign directed at people holding views considered unorthodox or a threat to society’, in reference to Communists being persecuted in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Before that a witch-hunt was a real hunt for witches, though the term is recorded first in novels from the 19th century, long after witches had stopped being burned at the stake.

Rhymes

blizzard, gizzard, izard, lizard, vizard

Definition of wizard in US English:

wizard

nounˈwizərdˈwɪzərd

1A man who has magical powers, especially in legends and fairy tales.
（传奇或神话中的）术士，男巫，魔法师
Example sentencesExamples
- The wizards' magical attacks were slowly building to a level that would be fatal to Solomon.
- For the first time, J.K. Rowling's novel proceeds in a manner that assumes that the reader is more or less familiar with her magical world of wizards and witchcraft.
- The people of Audrill were also magical but they could not combat the power of a wizard.
- We want there to be Gandalfs and Elronds and Galadriels in the world, wise old wizards and sages and sorcerers who are looking out for the rest of us.
- Every race has magical and non magical people, these could be wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, or sorceresses.
- He had only seen this on those fantasy movies about wizards and magical creatures.
- Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures.
- Many casters such as wizards, necromancers or enchanters were best paired with a cleric because after casting, a cleric could mend the internal wounds.
- Raised by his mean aunt and uncle, he learns on his 11 th birthday that he is a wizard of uncommon powers.
- He's certainly going to have to be a magical wizard to put United back in the black again.
- Then we come along, power hungry wizards looking for the secret to immortality, and we bag you.
- The wizard's power was strong beneath the youthful appearance.
- All the higher wizards, mages and sorcerers were wiped out.
- To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the Empress uses to control gold dragons, offsetting the magical power of the wizards.
- There were four ranks a person could be - witch or wizard, mage, enchanter or enchantress, and sorcerer or sorceress.
- The power that wizards commanded was the stuff of legends.
- The eyes of the two men were held on the still hovering crystals as they once again began to pulsate with a mysterious power beyond the wizards' imaginations.
- While reference is made to their role as teachers they most often appear as wizards, with the power to influence the elements and to predict the future.
- The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power.
- A portal gate is a form of transportation used by those who possess magical abilities such as wizards or magicians.
Synonyms
sorcerer, warlock, male witch, magus, magician, black magician, necromancer, occultist, enchanter
1. 1.1 A person who is very skilled in a particular field or activity.
  奇才，能手，行家
  a financial wizard
  金融奇才。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They include hoteliers, brewery giants, food specialists, financial wizards, recycling experts and transport logicists.
  Unlike my aged grandmothers, Casella is a wizard with beans, which he grows with tender care on an organic plot upstate.
  Another of my friends, Patrick, was a wizard with his daggers.
  It was launched by an engineering wizard with a fascination for radio.
  He's a wizard with a wrench though, and he always helps me out with repairs.
  A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
  He was a wizard with the ball and he could shoot also.
  He developed special radio frequency probes and was a wizard with an acupuncture needle.
  You might even end up being just like Compton - a tall well-built hero with matinee-idol looks and a wizard with the willow.
  Our house's previous owner was a wizard with perennials and it was a thrill our first spring there to watch the yard be transformed by unexpected blossoms.
  Acknowledged to be a wizard with the science, Javed has his own salons in many a happening place.
  Neil Hann, our production editor, is a computer wizard with the patience of Job.
  The Dow continues to head south, with Alan Greenspan, the one-time wizard with the Midas touch, experiencing a torrid time.
  A mathematical wizard with his name firmly stamped in the Limca Book of Records.
  Jerry Miculek is a fine rifleman, a wizard with a shotgun and adept with any type of handgun.
  The first is that economists and financial wizards got it wrong.
  He also found Norman Heatley, a laboratory wizard with great dexterity in micromethods.
  The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented.
  The centre-half forward, as much a wizard with an accordion as a caman, thundered the ball away from MacNiven and it sailed into the net.
  Karl Barlow was a wizard with paperwork and identity fraud.
  Synonyms
  genius, expert, master, adept, virtuoso, maestro, past master, marvel, prodigy
2Computing
A help feature of a software package that automates complex tasks by asking the user a series of easy-to-answer questions.
〔计算机〕向导
Example sentencesExamples
- Digital cameras and camcorders are well catered for, with installation wizards and simple editing software.
- Administration of digital certificates is also handled by the graphical user interface wizard.
- Straightforward wizards guide users through hard disk and Internet browser cleanups.
- A software wizard takes users through the activation process.
- If you own a modern computer, you will know there is a maintenance wizard in your windows software.
- These capabilities should be easy to configure and manage through graphical user interfaces and wizards.
- A web site can have novice users, and a wizard makes complex tasks seem easy.

adjectiveˈwizərdˈwɪzərd

British dated, informal

Wonderful; excellent.
〈非正式，旧，主英〉卓越的，杰出的，极好的，奇妙的
Example sentencesExamples
- Bloomsbury shares would be a wizard idea for a present.
- A wizard idea that Steven's ambitious deputy may find hard.
- If elected, I will appoint Buni as my Shadow Education Secretary, on the strength of this wizard idea of his in Peter's comments box.
- That's what someone over here said a few centuries ago and everyone thought it to be a jolly wizard idea.
Synonyms
excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘philosopher, sage’): from wise + -ard.

单词	wizard
释义	Definition of wizard in English: wizard noun ˈwɪzədˈwɪzərd 1(in legends and fairy tales) a man who has magical powers. Example sentencesExamples While reference is made to their role as teachers they most often appear as wizards, with the power to influence the elements and to predict the future. All the higher wizards, mages and sorcerers were wiped out. The power that wizards commanded was the stuff of legends. He had only seen this on those fantasy movies about wizards and magical creatures. The eyes of the two men were held on the still hovering crystals as they once again began to pulsate with a mysterious power beyond the wizards' imaginations. Then we come along, power hungry wizards looking for the secret to immortality, and we bag you. Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures. There were four ranks a person could be - witch or wizard, mage, enchanter or enchantress, and sorcerer or sorceress. The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power. The people of Audrill were also magical but they could not combat the power of a wizard. The wizard's power was strong beneath the youthful appearance. The wizards' magical attacks were slowly building to a level that would be fatal to Solomon. We want there to be Gandalfs and Elronds and Galadriels in the world, wise old wizards and sages and sorcerers who are looking out for the rest of us. Raised by his mean aunt and uncle, he learns on his 11 th birthday that he is a wizard of uncommon powers. A portal gate is a form of transportation used by those who possess magical abilities such as wizards or magicians. He's certainly going to have to be a magical wizard to put United back in the black again. Many casters such as wizards, necromancers or enchanters were best paired with a cleric because after casting, a cleric could mend the internal wounds. For the first time, J.K. Rowling's novel proceeds in a manner that assumes that the reader is more or less familiar with her magical world of wizards and witchcraft. To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the Empress uses to control gold dragons, offsetting the magical power of the wizards. Every race has magical and non magical people, these could be wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, or sorceresses. Synonyms sorcerer, warlock, male witch, magus, (black) magician, necromancer, occultist, enchanter Irish pishogue archaic mage rare thaumaturge, thaumaturgist 1.1 A person who is very skilled in a particular field or activity. 奇才，能手，行家 a financial wizard 金融奇才。 Example sentencesExamples Unlike my aged grandmothers, Casella is a wizard with beans, which he grows with tender care on an organic plot upstate. A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation. Jerry Miculek is a fine rifleman, a wizard with a shotgun and adept with any type of handgun. You might even end up being just like Compton - a tall well-built hero with matinee-idol looks and a wizard with the willow. Karl Barlow was a wizard with paperwork and identity fraud. He was a wizard with the ball and he could shoot also. He developed special radio frequency probes and was a wizard with an acupuncture needle. It was launched by an engineering wizard with a fascination for radio. The Dow continues to head south, with Alan Greenspan, the one-time wizard with the Midas touch, experiencing a torrid time. Our house's previous owner was a wizard with perennials and it was a thrill our first spring there to watch the yard be transformed by unexpected blossoms. He also found Norman Heatley, a laboratory wizard with great dexterity in micromethods. The first is that economists and financial wizards got it wrong. A mathematical wizard with his name firmly stamped in the Limca Book of Records. He's a wizard with a wrench though, and he always helps me out with repairs. Acknowledged to be a wizard with the science, Javed has his own salons in many a happening place. The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented. The centre-half forward, as much a wizard with an accordion as a caman, thundered the ball away from MacNiven and it sailed into the net. Neil Hann, our production editor, is a computer wizard with the patience of Job. Another of my friends, Patrick, was a wizard with his daggers. They include hoteliers, brewery giants, food specialists, financial wizards, recycling experts and transport logicists. Synonyms genius, expert, master, adept, virtuoso, maestro, past master, marvel, prodigy star German wunderkind informal hotshot, demon, wiz, whizz, whizz-kid, alpha geek, ninja, buff, old hand, pro, ace, something else, something to shout about, something to write home about British informal dab hand North American informal maven, crackerjack rare proficient 2Computing A help feature of a software package that automates complex tasks by asking the user a series of easy-to-answer questions. 〔计算机〕向导 Example sentencesExamples Administration of digital certificates is also handled by the graphical user interface wizard. These capabilities should be easy to configure and manage through graphical user interfaces and wizards. A web site can have novice users, and a wizard makes complex tasks seem easy. A software wizard takes users through the activation process. Straightforward wizards guide users through hard disk and Internet browser cleanups. Digital cameras and camcorders are well catered for, with installation wizards and simple editing software. If you own a modern computer, you will know there is a maintenance wizard in your windows software. adjective ˈwɪzədˈwɪzərd British dated, informal Wonderful; excellent. 〈非正式，旧，主英〉卓越的，杰出的，极好的，奇妙的 how absolutely wizard! I've just had a wizard idea Example sentencesExamples Bloomsbury shares would be a wizard idea for a present. If elected, I will appoint Buni as my Shadow Education Secretary, on the strength of this wizard idea of his in Peter's comments box. A wizard idea that Steven's ambitious deputy may find hard. That's what someone over here said a few centuries ago and everyone thought it to be a jolly wizard idea. Synonyms excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding Derivatives wizardly adjective Susan Stroman, the hyperkinetic director-choreographer behind the current Broadway hits Contact and The Music Man, is at her wizardly best here, keeping the stage whirling and alive. Example sentencesExamples Rather, The Sixth Sense achieved the elevation of cultural phenomenon because of a wizardly directorial effort by newcomer M. Night Shyamalan. Otherwise things are not so very different for Harry and his wizardly chums. Call yourself a graphic designer and you're identified as an artsy computer geek being hired to spice up a document with your wizardly technical skill. Not that there's anything satanic in his wizardly dabblings with cauldrons and broomsticks. This is where he had come to pass his worldly, as well as wizardly, knowledge onto Ereana, who, at that moment, was jumping out of the courtyard window without hesitation, tearing her long skirt on thorny rosebushes as she did so. I don't want to think about what the Mousla could gain from wizardly knowledge. President Johnson promised a War on Poverty, driven by a wizardly new Keynesian confidence that an economy of unprecedented abundance could deliver more groceries to everyone. Who can begrudge the rewards for three epic movies that were seven years in the making, and combined Tolkien's wizardly storytelling with the cutting edge of new technology? But you get the feeling that the wizardly manchild is indefatigable. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'philosopher, sage'): from wise¹ + -ard. witch from Old English: In Anglo-Saxon times witches were of both sexes. The masculine form was wicca, which is the source of wicked, and has also been revived in recent times by modern pagans as the name of their religion, Wicca. A female witch was a wicce. A male witch would now be called a wizard (Late Middle English), a word that comes from wise—in the Middle Ages wizards were wise men or sages, only becoming magicians in the mid 16th century. See also warlock. The witching hour is midnight, the time when witches are active. The phrase is from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet himself declares: Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world.’ George Orwell was the first to use witch-hunt to mean ‘a campaign directed at people holding views considered unorthodox or a threat to society’, in reference to Communists being persecuted in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Before that a witch-hunt was a real hunt for witches, though the term is recorded first in novels from the 19th century, long after witches had stopped being burned at the stake. Rhymes blizzard, gizzard, izard, lizard, vizard Definition of wizard in US English: wizard nounˈwizərdˈwɪzərd 1A man who has magical powers, especially in legends and fairy tales. （传奇或神话中的）术士，男巫，魔法师 Example sentencesExamples The wizards' magical attacks were slowly building to a level that would be fatal to Solomon. For the first time, J.K. Rowling's novel proceeds in a manner that assumes that the reader is more or less familiar with her magical world of wizards and witchcraft. The people of Audrill were also magical but they could not combat the power of a wizard. We want there to be Gandalfs and Elronds and Galadriels in the world, wise old wizards and sages and sorcerers who are looking out for the rest of us. Every race has magical and non magical people, these could be wizards, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, or sorceresses. He had only seen this on those fantasy movies about wizards and magical creatures. Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures. Many casters such as wizards, necromancers or enchanters were best paired with a cleric because after casting, a cleric could mend the internal wounds. Raised by his mean aunt and uncle, he learns on his 11 th birthday that he is a wizard of uncommon powers. He's certainly going to have to be a magical wizard to put United back in the black again. Then we come along, power hungry wizards looking for the secret to immortality, and we bag you. The wizard's power was strong beneath the youthful appearance. All the higher wizards, mages and sorcerers were wiped out. To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the Empress uses to control gold dragons, offsetting the magical power of the wizards. There were four ranks a person could be - witch or wizard, mage, enchanter or enchantress, and sorcerer or sorceress. The power that wizards commanded was the stuff of legends. The eyes of the two men were held on the still hovering crystals as they once again began to pulsate with a mysterious power beyond the wizards' imaginations. While reference is made to their role as teachers they most often appear as wizards, with the power to influence the elements and to predict the future. The five enemy wizards felt the magical energy in the air, and knew that they were about to confront a great power. A portal gate is a form of transportation used by those who possess magical abilities such as wizards or magicians. Synonyms sorcerer, warlock, male witch, magus, magician, black magician, necromancer, occultist, enchanter 1.1 A person who is very skilled in a particular field or activity. 奇才，能手，行家 a financial wizard 金融奇才。 Example sentencesExamples They include hoteliers, brewery giants, food specialists, financial wizards, recycling experts and transport logicists. Unlike my aged grandmothers, Casella is a wizard with beans, which he grows with tender care on an organic plot upstate. Another of my friends, Patrick, was a wizard with his daggers. It was launched by an engineering wizard with a fascination for radio. He's a wizard with a wrench though, and he always helps me out with repairs. A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation. He was a wizard with the ball and he could shoot also. He developed special radio frequency probes and was a wizard with an acupuncture needle. You might even end up being just like Compton - a tall well-built hero with matinee-idol looks and a wizard with the willow. Our house's previous owner was a wizard with perennials and it was a thrill our first spring there to watch the yard be transformed by unexpected blossoms. Acknowledged to be a wizard with the science, Javed has his own salons in many a happening place. Neil Hann, our production editor, is a computer wizard with the patience of Job. The Dow continues to head south, with Alan Greenspan, the one-time wizard with the Midas touch, experiencing a torrid time. A mathematical wizard with his name firmly stamped in the Limca Book of Records. Jerry Miculek is a fine rifleman, a wizard with a shotgun and adept with any type of handgun. The first is that economists and financial wizards got it wrong. He also found Norman Heatley, a laboratory wizard with great dexterity in micromethods. The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented. The centre-half forward, as much a wizard with an accordion as a caman, thundered the ball away from MacNiven and it sailed into the net. Karl Barlow was a wizard with paperwork and identity fraud. Synonyms genius, expert, master, adept, virtuoso, maestro, past master, marvel, prodigy 2Computing A help feature of a software package that automates complex tasks by asking the user a series of easy-to-answer questions. 〔计算机〕向导 Example sentencesExamples Digital cameras and camcorders are well catered for, with installation wizards and simple editing software. Administration of digital certificates is also handled by the graphical user interface wizard. Straightforward wizards guide users through hard disk and Internet browser cleanups. A software wizard takes users through the activation process. If you own a modern computer, you will know there is a maintenance wizard in your windows software. These capabilities should be easy to configure and manage through graphical user interfaces and wizards. A web site can have novice users, and a wizard makes complex tasks seem easy. adjectiveˈwizərdˈwɪzərd British dated, informal Wonderful; excellent. 〈非正式，旧，主英〉卓越的，杰出的，极好的，奇妙的 Example sentencesExamples Bloomsbury shares would be a wizard idea for a present. A wizard idea that Steven's ambitious deputy may find hard. If elected, I will appoint Buni as my Shadow Education Secretary, on the strength of this wizard idea of his in Peter's comments box. That's what someone over here said a few centuries ago and everyone thought it to be a jolly wizard idea. Synonyms excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘philosopher, sage’): from wise + -ard.
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