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fairytalelike

fairytalelike 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 fairytalelike

comparativemore fairytalelike
superlativemost fairytalelike

Origin of fairytalelike

From fairytale + -like.

Questions about fairytalelike

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

Words near fairytalelike in the dictionary

  1. fairyships
  2. fairysome
  3. fairytale
  4. fairytale ending
  5. fairytale endings
  6. fairytalelike
  7. fairytales
  8. fairywren
  9. fairywrens
  10. fais do-do
  11. fais-dodo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairytalelike (page history and authors); fairy-tale-like (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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