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faerylike

faerylike is the obsolete spelling of fairylike.

Meaning of fairylike

Adjective

fairylike (comparative more fairylike, superlative most fairylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fairy.
    • 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...1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35
    Synonyms:
    elfin, fey

Forms of faerylike

comparativemore faerylike
superlativemost faerylike

Origin of faerylike

From faery + -like.

Questions about faerylike

What is faerylike the obsolete spelling of?
Faerylike is the obsolete spelling of fairylike.

Words near faerylike in the dictionary

  1. Faery Wiccans
  2. faerydom
  3. faerykind
  4. faeryland
  5. faerylands
  6. faerylike
  7. faes
  8. Faetar
  9. Faeto
  10. FAETUPAC
  11. faetus

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