WIZZES Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

wizzes

noun

plural of wiz

as in wizards

a very smart person he must be some kind of wiz to have graduated college at age 19

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Noun

This means the team members don’t need to be tech wizards to build custom reference material.

— K.H. Koehler, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Players can also customize a walking castle and investigate a mystery involving missing wizards.

— Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of wizards

Noun

In their place are flawed geniuses and idiosyncratic personalities thrust together in the dregs of intelligence services, operating like a dysfunctional family under its disreputable patriarch.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
Broadly speaking, these kinds of stories — powered by a stop-them-before-they-kill-again clock, making their antagonists out to be finicky geniuses or horror movie monsters instead of opportunistic mediocrities — strike me as a low form of fiction.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of geniuses

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Instead, the study shows their brains react differently to certain facial expressions.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Gajdusek had come to the idea of injecting animals after a veterinary pathologist noticed that the brains of kuru patients resembled those of sheep with scrapie, a fatal neurological disease transmitted through exposure to infected tissues.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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