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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If Pangram’s tools are accurate, 260 out of 310 people who published guest articles in the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post did it entirely with their own brains (or perhaps the brains of an underling).

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026
The study described the importance of reducing stigma about cognitive decline, helping people care for their brains to decrease dementia risk and acknowledging the impacts dementia has on families and households.

— Hillary Lum, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

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