GENIE Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

genie

noun

Definition of genie

as in demon

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.

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Recent Examples of genie Alibaba is hoping to summon the AI genie from its bottle with a mega share sale. — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026 The filmmaker Lucas Ansel picked up on this fact, and ran with it, creating a stop-motion-animation adaptation of the classic Shouts, which describes a bit of a monkey’s-paw situation, involving a hard-of-hearing genie in a bathroom, naturally. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026 For the first time since the Second World War, wealthy Americans watched their tax rates plunge, unleashing a genie that, in time, would shake loose any remaining restrictions on American oligarchs’ wealth. — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026 Patrick Fussell, global head of adversary simulation at IBM, compared AI to a genie. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for genie

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Noun

Or the fact that the Magician has recorded the group ritual through which the demon was transported into the little girl’s body on videotape.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Oh, and a seventh-circle’s worth of personal demons which, big break or not, show no signs of giving Green a rest.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of demon

Noun

Novelist and screenwriter Anne Rice led the charge against Cruise’s casting as Lestat de Lioncourt, a French theater actor in the 1700s who’d already become an immortal vampire by the time he’s introduced.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
Here, Martha uses small white pumpkins to create fanged vampire and winged pat pumpkins.

— Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of vampire

Noun

The cost is $35 to $40 and includes all of the supplies needed to turn your child into a butterfly, a Star Wars ranger or a fairy princess.

— Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2026
And the book’s title and Madeleine’s nickname, Queen Mab, comes from a fairy referred to by Mercutio in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

— Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of fairy

Noun

Back to the ghosts Zwicker also is the author of books about haunted places in New England.

— Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
The ghost moon The leading explanation, Santos-Sanz explains, is a small shepherd satellite sharing the outer ring’s orbit.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of ghost

Noun

Dostoyevsky’s sniveling devil comes closest to portraying the man chiefly responsible for organizing the Final Solution.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
In January, Watts was a guest on actor Rainn Wilson’s podcast, where Watts played devil’s advocate to Wilson’s skeptic about casual use of mind-altering substances.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of devil

Noun

That was a concept that came from one of our artists in the region who said, OK, well, if there’s been centuries of battles between an evil jinn faction and humanity, perhaps some pieces of them would still remain in the world?

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 18 June 2026

Definition of jinni

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