Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality: "She's got that fey look as though she's had breakfast with a leprechaun” ( Dorothy Burnham).
- adj. Having visionary power; clairvoyant.
- adj. Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.
- adj. Scots Fated to die soon.
- adj. Scots Full of the sense of approaching death.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete form of fay.
- Same as fay.
- n. A Middle English form of fay.
- See fay.
- n. An obsolete form of fee.
Wiktionary
- adj. Magical or fairylike.
- adj. Strange or otherworldly.
- adj. Spellbound.
- adj. About to die; fated; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
- adj. Dying; dead.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. slightly insane
- adj. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
Etymologies
- Middle English feie, fated to die, from Old English fǣge.
Examples
“April 7th, 2010 11: 28 am ET beauty must not be just skin deep cause while palin has an uglyness about her tina fey is my #1 celebrity crush”
“Having just listened to the wonderful “Chasing the Bard” by Pip Ballantine, I was off in fey realms of beauty and magic.”
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“April 7th, 2010 3: 41 pm ET fey is getting desperate for some press ink. her latest movie shows she has no acting skills whatsoever and 30 rock has become repetitively boring. time to get a real job tina.”
“On March 3rd 2008, yo wrote: tiny fey is “daisy”, not “amber” which is amy pohler”
“He still looks somewhat distrait, however, and retains that wild look in his eyes which in a Highlander would mean that he was "fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.”
“She was "fey" -- _exaltée_ -- in the state of lighthearted-and lightheadedness for which sober, literal, decorous English has no synonym.”
“He was thought to have been "fey" -- namely, in high spirits -- recklessly hastening to a violent death; for as he rode along the crags close above”
““So maybe once you call the fey we should prostrate ourselves like we’re worshipping them and let the guy get his shot off.””
“Those who had known him longest said he must be fey, that is doomed, so strangely altered was his behaviour.”
“fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fey’.
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Archaic
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 327 more...
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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word list
abligurition, humectant, absterge, dactylonomy, agamous, olecranon, geosmin, sphallolalia, aquiline, obloquy, quiescent, fother and 17 more...
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fairytale words
any words which evoke a sense of childplay and fairytales!
unicorn, penchant, whimsy, folly, dastardly, pixie, sylph, kelpie, petticoat, elfin, fey, dandelion
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jeffrey.t.whitney's list
sartorial, sabbatarian, sagacious, desiccate, ersatz, insouciant, atavistic, luddite, crwth, obdurate, stentorian, ruminate and 51 more...
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RealLifePixel's Bad-Ass Words
Words so awesome they'll kick your eyeballs' asses!
cucurbitaceous, sacerdotal, loudhailer, bildungsroman, sublation, marmoreal, recusant, velleity, hardscrabble, malinger, miasma, brennschluss and 76 more...
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Tolkien's archaisms
sigaldry, moot, kine, fey, eyot, ghylls, gangrel, glede, ilexes, laved, niggard, league and 44 more...
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doubtlessly reduntant
pedentive, pendentive, fantod, nonpareil, apposite, anfractuous, amanuensis, sherbet, erumpent, verdigris, styptic, tektitic and 24 more...
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Words With Interesting Alternative Meanings
sobriquet (adj): fated to die soon (archaic) Aug 19, 2009