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 The fantasy comedy, which starred Eden alongside Larry Hagman, followed the whimsical adventures of astronaut Anthony Nelson, who discovers an enchanted lamp with a wish-granting genie. — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 Eden is best known for her starring role as the title character in the 1960s I Dream of Jeannie, a sitcom that followed an astronaut who found a bottle containing a 2,000-year-old genie. — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for genie

Recent Examples of Synonyms for genie

Noun

In southern India, Diwali celebrates Lord Krishna's victory over the demon Naraka, who is said to have imprisoned women and tormented his subjects.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
In southern India, Diwali celebrates Lord Krishna’s victory over the demon Naraka, who is said to have imprisoned women and tormented his subjects.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of demon

Noun

Garcia will play Mandy Alejandra Pike, a British Latina vampire whose maker, Vicente, has held her captive as the Plaza Theatre’s sole employee since 1939.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2026
Blue star falls victim to a cosmic vampire Each time the compact object reaches the point in its orbit that is closest to the luminous blue variable, its powerful gravity is able to pull material from the unstable star.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of vampire

Noun

Think a giant, twinkling dandelion field; technicolor hopscotch maze; fairy displays everywhere; and snazzy pathways that look straight out of a South Beach nightclub.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2026
The music tries to match that vertiginous feeling, with vocals like fairy hiccups and cloud rap beats that sound like falling out of the heavens.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of fairy

Noun

The film turned from horror into drama, though it was still marketed in Thailand as a ghost film because that genre sells.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026
Yet every technology transformation is followed by a ghost that rarely appears on a project plan, risk register or executive dashboard.

— Irene Thong, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of ghost

Noun

Throughout outer space lie stars and galaxies that resemble creepy creatures, spooky skulls and galactic ghouls.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2026
Humanoid moths and demon babies, hitchhiking ghouls, the occasional sea monster and even a suspicious phantom kangaroo or two.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of ghoul

Noun

Dion shared a few photos of her own from the show on social media, including Instagram Stories post featuring herself, her two sons, Eddy and Nelson Angélil, and Black, all throwing up devil horns.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2026
The guitars shred our ears, the wall opens up, and a pair of monsters slinks into the room — a red devil, a hunchbacked demon with a black snout.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of devil

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