necromantic means of or relating to necromancy: the resurrection of or communication with the dead, especially through the use of black magic. It carries an Arena rating of 1588, earned across 49 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, necromantic ranks #236 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #374 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #1,093 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #1,250 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “necromantic” is a great word
NECROMANTIC — [Adjective] Of or relating to necromancy, the practice of magic involving communication with or resurrection of the dead. From Late Latin necromanticus, from Greek nekromantikós, from nekromanteía (divination by communication with the dead), from nekro- ("dead body") + manteía ("divination, prophecy"). Unlike "thaumaturgic," which implies miraculous wonder-working, often divine, or "goetic," which traffics with demons, "necromantic" is specific in its cold intimacy with mortality. It is the scent of grave-soil on a midnight trowel, the susurrus of a summoned shade in a silent crypt, and the terrible patience of stitching sinew to bone—a practice forever haunting the border between desperate love and absolute desecration.
Etymology
From Late Latin necromanticus.
adj
- Of or relating to necromancy: the resurrection of or communication with the dead, especially through the use of black magic.
noun
- conjuratione.g.“With all the necromantics of their art.” — 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or, The Man of the World Answer’d. In which are Considered, the Love of this Life; the Ambition and Pleasures, with the Wit and Wisdom of the
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