feyer

Adjective

fey (comparative feyer or more fey, superlative feyest or most fey)

1. (archaic, dialectal, poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
   • Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 18, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   accursed, undone, condemned, cursed, star-crossed, sunk, cussed, damned, dead meat, doomed

2. (obsolete) Dying; dead.

   Synonyms:

   lifeless, moribund, asleep, at rest, blessed, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased, breathless, resting

3. (Ireland, Scotland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

   Synonyms:

   psychic, second-sighted, sibylline

4. Overrefined, affected.
   • His interlocutor was whimsical if not downright fey. He pushed his spectacles to the top of his nose. He shoved them into his greying locks like an effeminate racing driver. He gave Pym sherry and put a hand on his backside in order to propel him to a long window that gave on to a row of council...1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy

   Synonyms:

   effete, stagy, affected, recherché, hoity-toity, overrefined, pansified, precious, pretentious, smug

5. Strange or otherworldly.
   • Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186

   Synonyms:

   ethereal, mystical, supernatural, transcendental

6. Spellbound.

   Synonyms:

   enchanted, spellbound

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