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unfairy

unfairy adjective: unfairylike.

Adjective

unfairy (comparative more unfairy, superlative most unfairy)

  1. unfairylike
    • They are withered, old, and solitary, in every way unlike the sociable spirits of the first sections. They dress with all unfairy homeliness, and are, indeed, most sluttish, slouching, jeering, mischievous phantoms.1888, W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, London: Walter Scott, page 80

Forms of unfairy

comparativemore unfairy
superlativemost unfairy

Origin of unfairy

un- + fairy

Questions about unfairy

What does unfairy mean?
Unfairy means unfairylike.
What part of speech is unfairy?
Unfairy is an adjective.

Words near unfairy in the dictionary

  1. unfairminded
  2. unfairmindedness
  3. unfairness
  4. unfairnesses
  5. unfairs
  6. unfairy
  7. unfairylike
  8. unfaith
  9. unfaithful
  10. unfaithfullness
  11. unfaithfully

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