fairy-tale-like

Adjective

fairy-tale-like (comparative more fairy-tale-like, superlative most fairy-tale-like)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fairy tale; implausibly ideal or romantic, having a happy ending, etc.
   • Like a twisted Alice sucked down the rabbit hole, Sandy describes her imprisonment as a series of fairy-tale-like hallucinations.1997 November 30, Catherine Texier, “Kind of Surreal All Over”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2001
   • Directly above me, on the plateau, sat the magnificent fortress. At night, bathed in soft lights, it appeared to be sitting magically up in the black sky. Even now, I become excited when I think about this fairy-tale-like scene.2002 November 22, Martha Marino, “From Carcassonne to Paris”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2026