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fairy tale-like

fairy tale-like is the alternative form of fairy-tale-like.

Meaning of 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

Forms of fairy tale-like

comparativemore fairy tale-like
superlativemost fairy tale-like

Questions about fairy tale-like

What is fairy tale-like the alternative form of?
Fairy tale-like is the alternative form of fairy-tale-like.

Words near fairy tale-like in the dictionary

  1. fairy story
  2. fairy swallow
  3. fairy swallows
  4. fairy swords
  5. fairy tale
  6. fairy tale-like
  7. fairy tales
  8. fairy tern
  9. fairy terns
  10. fairy thorn
  11. fairy thorns

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