WHAMMIES Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

whammies

noun

plural of whammy

as in spells

a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power if you tell anyone about this, I swear I'll put the whammy on you

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something that brings bad luck put the whammy on herself by publicly predicting that she would win the tennis tournament

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Noun

The 1995 Chicago heat wave is the most notorious and deadly of the city's hot spells, and in fact the deadliest weather event in the city's history.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 July 2026
And England had been desperately poor for long spells of the game, tense, panicked, shambolic in defence.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of spells

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Circe is able, by means of drugs and incantations, to change humans into wolves, lions, and other animals.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
As prospective farmers struggled to clear forests for rice fields in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Malaya, their efforts might have been accompanied by mystical incantations like this invocation against Iblis, the Devil in Islamic tradition.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2026

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Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park is known for its otherworldly landscape of vibrant red rock hoodoos—tall spires of rock sculpted by millions of years of erosion.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2026
The South Unit's badlands, deep-cut canyons, and sandy hoodoos allow modern explorers to see the allure of a wild North Dakota.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026

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