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Wonder-worker

n.capable, hopefulliterary

What it means

A person who achieves remarkably helpful or impressive results.

Reach for it when using admiring or religious language for someone credited with extraordinary results

The grateful team called their inventive mechanic a wonder-worker.

Choose between these

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  • playful

    magician

    skill appears effortless and surprising

    not when The metaphor hides the method and preparation.

  • everyday

    fixer

    a practical person resolves difficult problems

    not when Fixer can imply secrecy or questionable influence.

  • warm

    miracle worker

    results seem far beyond reasonable expectation

    not when The phrase can erase effort, systems, and collaborators.

  • professional

    problem-solver

    repeatable practical resolution is the honest praise

    not when Problem-solver is measured and lacks wonder.

  • formal

    virtuoso

    exceptional mastery produces dazzling results

    not when Virtuoso belongs to skill, not supernatural power.

  • literary

    savior

    someone rescues a situation from collapse

    not when Savior language creates dependency and unrealistic obligation.

Said against

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  • bungler
  • destroyer
  • obstructer

It naturally appears in

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  • renowned wonder-worker

    The renowned wonder-worker was remembered for cures attributed to her.

  • modern wonder-worker

    Engineers cast the modern wonder-worker as a team rather than a lone genius.

  • called a wonder-worker

    The grateful village called the surgeon a wonder-worker.

Where this comes from

Wonder-worker can be literal in religious traditions and hyperbolic elsewhere; do not turn skilled people into promises of impossible rescue.

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.