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Synonyms & Antonyms of genie
in stories
a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it
- He rubbed the magic lamp to summon the genie.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for genie
- apparition,
- banshee,
- bogey
- (also bogie or bogy),
- bugbear,
- familiar,
- familiar spirit,
- genius,
- phantasm
- (also fantasm),
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- specter
- (or spectre),
- spook,
- vision,
- wraith
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for genie
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“Genie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genie. Accessed 28 May. 2022.
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The first known use of genie was in 1706
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