HEX Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

hex 1 of 2

noun

as in witch

a woman believed to have often harmful supernatural powers people who used to believe that misfortune was caused by evil hexes and mischievous sprites

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as in curse

something that brings bad luck there seemed to be a hex on him, for all of his business ventures came to naught despite his hard work

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as in spell

a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power the wizard had put a hex on the evil gnome that turned him to stone

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verb

ˈheks

as in to spell

to cast a spell on I think our plans have been hexed from the start—everything is going wrong

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Noun

But the latter collapse is less a hex and more an injury. —

Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024 For example, in HTML, the < and > characters are often escaped by converting them into their unicode hex value equivalents < and > to prevent them from being interpreted as HTML tags by a browser. —

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024

Verb

At the trial, the judge wondered if demonstrators outside the courtroom were using voodoo dolls, or planning to hex anyone. —

Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2021 The most common Punjabi phrase people are using to hex the president seems to have originated in a tweet unrelated to Trump, from a fan account dedicated to Cory Monteith, the Glee star who died in 2013. —

Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020 See all Example Sentences for hex

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