Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to talismans: talismanic formulas.
- adj. Possessing or believed to possess magic power: a talismanic amulet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the character or properties of a talisman; characteristic of a talisman; magical.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, relating to, or like, a talisman.
- adj. this sense?) Having a magical protective power.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power
Examples
“Inspired by the complex numerical relationships identified in talismanic objects or tables the Iranian artist Yahya Fiuzi creates art by interpreting the numbers as colours.”
“To my thinking, the inscriptions must have been of that so-called talismanic kind in which these weak heathen believe.”
“And I enjoy being a so-called talismanic figure - I love being involved and trying to make things happen for others - but more than one man is going to have to play well if we are going to beat England.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“One member of his retinue said he views the Spaniard as a "talismanic" figure whose departure would alter his valuation of the club.”
The Guardian: Kenny Huang bid one of many offers for Liverpool, says Martin Broughton
“Roy Hodgson bemoaned the loss of his "talismanic" defender, who could be absent for up to six weeks.”
The Guardian: Loss of Jamie Carragher adds to Liverpool's list of absent leaders
“That evening, only a few hours ago, the officers of his staff regarded him as a kind of talismanic idol; by midnight he had become a millstone around their necks, a mere lump of carved stone ...”
“Then make a book, but make it what the magicians call a "talismanic" work - somehow beautiful, nicely bound on good paper etc.”
“A. Charles at 6: 43 seems to believe that invocation of the words "Unitary Executive Theory" works some kind of talismanic magic juju that obviates the need to actually reason out a position.”
“This information gap, I fear, will lead most mainstream reporters to simply parrot the administration's portrayal of GNEP as some kind of talismanic cure-all, at least from now until President Bush seals the deal by shaking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hand at the White House on Friday (April 27).”
Alex Raksin: The Spin Over the "Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan"
“The other thing was that they had decided for curious kind of talismanic reasons, as I was told today by one of the officials who attended the execution, that they wanted this done in the year 2006.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘talismanic’.
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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GRE vocab
martinet, churlish, polyglot, aplomb, dissembler, histrionics, prevarication, ignominy, impugn, fastidious, trenchant, perfunctory and 155 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 996 more...
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GRE
predisposed, browbeaten, hegemonic, corollary, mendacity, remnant, futile, touchstone, upshot, intuition, perseverance, perk and 214 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Good Words
Various words noted while reading over the past 15 years.
gravitas, telos, effulgent, apophatic, démarche, viscera, pallid, mien, expiation, portmanteau, satiety, nadir and 58 more...
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word set 4
intercalate, stumpage, lexiphanic, arrhythmia, cyclorama, technetronic, turgescence, flameout, gimballing, transonic, juggernaut, acheron and 87 more...
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rostam
shahnameh, paragon, writ, constrain, kingmaker, tangential, simorgh, angha, mazanderan, mehrab, zahhak, feraydun and 56 more...
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bucket words
serendipity, bombdiggity, alacrity, jejune, poppysmic, Rhytiscopia, doytin, descry, bon vivant, flotsam, gambit, wanderlust
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