black magic

Questions about black magic

What does black magic mean?

black magic means "the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world".

What is another word for black magic?

Close synonyms include sorcery, black art, necromancy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black magic a common word?

black magic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.