Fey

Quick meaning: Fey is an adjective meaning Overrefined, affected.

Meaning

Overrefined, affected.

More Meanings

1. Strange or otherworldly.
2. Spellbound.
3. Magical or fairylike.
4. (fiction, mysticism) A fairy.
5. (dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
6. (obsolete) Dying; dead.
7. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

Example Sentences

Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.

He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse.

Guadalupe was a fey mexicana with long braids and a taste for embroidered Oaxacan blouses and overwrought indigenous jewelry, and also a former university student like Araceli.

… he did not tell Mary Alonso, who had taken Dell's place as a source of gossip and information, and with whom he went out for drinks on occasion, usually along with Mary's partner, Roberta, a fey, freckly, dark-haired girl, …

Word Forms

• feyer
• feyest
• feys
• feying
• feyed

Synonyms for fey

Depending on context, synonyms include fairy, accursed, condemned, cursed, sunk, cussed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include insane, touched, supernatural, elfin, fay, enchanted.

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