fairylike

comparative more fairylike · superlative most fairylike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fairy.

   We halted by a fairy-like pool where the proud Davey stood beside a wopper ’roo.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 134

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   Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

   1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35

   Synonyms: elfin, fey