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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. slightly insane;
[syn: fey, touched(p)]

2. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness;
- Example: "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"
- Example: "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
[syn: elfin, fey]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), a. [AS. f[=ae]ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.] Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), n. [See Fay faith.] Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fey \Fey\, v. t. [Cf. Feague.] To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] --Tusser. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fey adj 1: slightly insane [syn: fey, touched(p)] 2: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: elfin, fey]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "fey": abnormal, anomalous, arcane, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dotty, eccentric, eerie, erratic, esoteric, exceptional, extramundane, extraterrestrial, flaky, freakish, funny, hypernormal, hyperphysical, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, irregular, kinky, kooky, maggoty, mysterious, numinous, nutty, occult, odd, oddball, otherworldly, peculiar, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, queer, quirky, screwball, screwy, singular, spiritual, strange, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unhuman, unnatural, unworldly, wacky, whimsical