unseelie

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noun

A malevolent or malicious fairy.

“Unseelie wights”

Opposite
Seelie
OriginScots unseely ← Middle English unsely ← Old English unsǣliġ →
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Meanings

unseelie1

noununseelie (plural unseelie)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Unseelie.
adjectiveunseelie (comparative more unseelie, superlative most unseelie)

comparative more unseelie · superlative most unseelie

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Unseelie.

Unseelie2

nounUnseelie (plural Unseelie)
  1. artsA malevolent or malicious fairy.
adjectiveUnseelie (comparative more Unseelie, superlative most Unseelie)

comparative more Unseelie · superlative most Unseelie

  1. artsOf or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc).

    Unseelie wights

    2 more examples

    “That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.” “I cannot always choose how the magic will come.” “It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said.

    2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN

    “I am very Unseelie Tuatha Dé. Almost one hundred percent, in fact. Only a drop of Seelie to muddy the pool. Do you have a problem with that, Shining One?”

    2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
Seelie

Origin

  1. Old Englishunsǣliġ
  2. Middle Englishunsely
  3. Scotsunseely“mischievous, evil-doing”
  4. EnglishUnseelie

Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

unseelie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseelie

MLA

“unseelie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseelie. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unseelie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseelie.

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