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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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).
  2. adj. Having visionary power; clairvoyant.
  3. adj. Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.
  4. adj. Scots Fated to die soon.
  5. adj. Scots Full of the sense of approaching death.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An obsolete form of fay.
  2. Same as fay.
  3. n. A Middle English form of fay.
  4. See fay.
  5. n. An obsolete form of fee.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Magical or fairylike.
  2. adj. Strange or otherworldly.
  3. adj. Spellbound.
  4. adj. About to die; fated; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
  5. adj. Dying; dead.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Fated; doomed.
  2. n. Faith.
  3. v. To cleanse; to clean out.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. slightly insane
  2. adj. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

Etymologies

  1. Middle English feie, fated to die, from Old English fǣge.

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  • sobriquet (adj): fated to die soon (archaic) Aug 19, 2009

‘fey’ has been looked up 3343 times, loved by 16 people, added to 90 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 9.