fey
adjective
1 fey
Slightly insane.
synonym: touched.
Roget 828:
in pain,
in a state of pain,
full of pain
etc.
n.;
suffering
etc.
v.;
pained,
afflicted,
worried,
displeased
etc.
830;
aching,
griped,
sore
etc.
(physical pain)
378;
on the rack,
in limbo;
between hawk and buzzard.
uncomfortable,
uneasy;
ill at ease;
in a taking,
in a way;
disturbed;
discontented
etc.
832;
out of humor
etc.
901.1;
weary
etc.
841.
heavy laden,
stricken,
crushed,
a prey to,
victimized,
ill-used.
unfortunate
etc.
(hapless)
735;
to be pitied,
doomed,
devoted,
accursed,
undone,
lost,
stranded;
fey.
unhappy,
infelicitous,
poor,
wretched,
miserable,
woe-begone;
cheerless
etc.
(dejected)
837;
careworn.
concerned,
sorry;
sorrowing,
sorrowful;
cut up,
chagrined,
horrified,
horror-stricken;
in grief,
plunged in grief,
a prey to grief
etc.
n.;
in tears
etc.
(lamenting)
839;
steeped to the lips in misery;
heart-stricken,
heart-broken,
heart-scalded;
broken-hearted;
in despair
etc.
859.
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2 fey
Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness:
— The fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday.
synonym: elfin.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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