Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to Circe, in Greek mythology a beautiful sorceress, who is represented by Homer as having converted the companions of Ulysses into swine by means of an enchanted beverage; hence, fascinating but brutifying; infatuating and depraving: as, a Circean draught.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious.
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jeffreytwhitney's list
abecedarian, assonance, prolix, avuncular, baleful, borborygmus, accismus, atavism, catachresis, coruscant, callipygian, carbuncle and 117 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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Nihilarity
Absurdity, dark art, radicalism, anger, tragic irony, and nothingness. Tee-hee!
nihilism, dada, futurism, rayonism, postmodernity, deconstruction, surrealism, existentialism, reductio ad absurdum, discordianism, operation mindfuck, amorality and 127 more...
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just because
Not all English. Apologies.
bongo-bongoism, spiv, igg, wormwood, umbra, circean, woodnote, dormouse, ben trovato, exonym, apologetics, tuesday and 8 more...
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King of Gnomes
those gifted with the social eloquence, and the services they provide
grig, bellwether, callipygian, cynosure, gemütlich, dernier cri, toff, vaunt, scuttlebutt, sprezzatura, sprezzatura, sycophant and 64 more...
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seanahan After Circe from the Odyssey? Apr 7, 2008
bilby Having the quality of being seductively attractive yet noxious. Wow. Apr 6, 2008