Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: alchemy
IPA transcription: ['ælkəmi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: alchemy
    Meaning: a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
  • Synonyms: chemistry, interpersonal_chemistry, alchemy
    Meaning: the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together"
Usage examples
  • She is the product of an Alchemy of such virtue that he who is able to practise it, will turn her into pure gold of inestimable worth.
  • How he had loved her, in those dead yesterdays, and how she had loved him! The poignant sweetness of it came back, changed by some fatal alchemy into bitterness.
  • Strange alchemy, which Sarka wondered about and, wondering, looked ahead to the time when he should be able, within his laboratory, to analyze the force it embodied, and thus gain new scientific knowledge of untold value to people of the Earth.