fairy-tale-like

comparative more fairy-tale-like · superlative most fairy-tale-like · alternative fairy tale-like · alternative fairy-talelike · alternative fairytalelike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fairy tale; implausibly ideal or romantic, having a happy ending, etc.

   Like a twisted Alice sucked down the rabbit hole, Sandy describes her imprisonment as a series of fairy-tale-like hallucinations.

   1997 November 30, Catherine Texier, “Kind of Surreal All Over”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2001

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   Directly above me, on the plateau, sat the magnificent fortress. At night, bathed in soft lights, it appeared to be sitting magically up in the black sky. Even now, I become excited when I think about this fairy-tale-like scene.

   2002 November 22, Martha Marino, “From Carcassonne to Paris”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2026

   And here they are, some of the most strange and beautifully crafted public interiors in Britain for many years. Here are polished concrete caverns, complex timber roofs, fairy-tale-like committee rooms and private offices to read fairy tales in.

   2004 May 31, Jonathan Glancey, “Reassuringly expensive”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2014