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Definition of fey in English: feyadjectivefeyer, feyest feɪfeɪ 1Giving an impression of vague unworldliness or mystery. 稀奇古怪的；非现世的 a rather fey romantic novelist Example sentencesExamples - In today's political climate nothing spells defeat for Democrats more than the image of a bunch of fey, ivory tower eggheads running the military.
- Depp plays it low camp and fey, with beard braids, gold teeth and smudged mascara, and he does that Mike Myers / Dr Evil hand-to-mouth thing, only with the forefinger.
- The mother, whom the author renames as Eily, is an archetypal O'Brien heroine - beautiful, free-loving and fey, whose only crime is compassion.
- They do not have this strange, fey reticence to engage in ‘the blame game.’
- She'll be in need of some fey, shy boy affections.
- She was a fey creature from beginning to end, clinging to her white dress and teacup, scrawling the odd missive, at a loss in the environment she made her home and among the Warlpiri people who became her rescuers and friends.
- There are fey frowns and cynical or innocent smiles.
- The Divine Comedy is primarily Neil Hannon, an idiosyncratic, vaguely fey Brit who does a mean impression of Thom Yorke doing a mean impression of Cole Porter.
- Pat McGarvey is a lounge pioneer, a man to whom the phrase Austin Powers conjures up an image of the Six Million Dollar Man and his sharp-dressed head honcho Oscar rather than a fey secret agent with alarming dentistry.
- Rather they convey an image of Ireland as a fey, mysterious place where funny things happen - funny strange and funny ha-ha.
- ‘The Second Line’ features the most precious, fey vocal stylings.
- Matthew MacFadyen is a notably fey King's Justice and Bettany looks tortured and panicked, as if his old employer Lars von Trier was waving to him from behind the camera.
- He and co-founder/keyboardist Chris Seligman grew up together in Toronto, best friends who shared a love of fey, pretentious pop from across the pond.
- The slightly gauche figure-drawing adds to the carvings' fey allure, but their chief trait is an obsession with describing drapery and water in very low relief through swathes of sinuously convoluted line.
- A year on from their emergence into the public eye, we are swamped with soporific, overwrought, piano-led rock played by lip-trembling white boys with messy hair, student debts and fey voices.
- Endearingly fey one minute, Norton will then go straight for the jugular of some poor, taste-challenged Pom in the audience, or phone an American eccentric on his dog-phone.
- My personal distaste for fey singers aside, British quartet the Buffseeds offer up a decent and quite listenable album.
- In fact 50% more people in Melbourne stayed with Nicole's fey acting and the slick film making of Baz Luhrmann.
- And then he proceeds to fill them with all kinds of fey things, and blends ‘reality’ with ‘fantasy’ until no one knows which way is up anymore.
- There's something not a little heart-breaking in seeing intelligent, beautiful women whose faces show their experience going through the motions of fey girlishness.
Synonyms ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, star-crossed, under a curse, cursed, jinxed, foredoomed, hapless, damned, bedevilled, luckless, unlucky 2Having supernatural powers of clairvoyance. 有超自然视力的 Example sentencesExamples - The key to her salvation is the fascinating combination of her fey powers with her steadfastly mortal mind.
- King Arthur was surrounded by fey women, all intimately concerned with his fate.
- Just another human with fey ancestry working for the Grey Detective Agency, where we specialized in supernatural problems, magical solutions.
Synonyms ethereal, dreamy, spiritual, mystic, mystical 3Scottish archaic Fated to die or at the point of death. 〈主苏格兰〉注定要死的；濒死的 Example sentencesExamples - She has that fey look of someone whose time on Earth was always meant to be short.
- They know a person is "fey," or doomed, but cannot avert the destined events.
Derivativesadverb Cyreina laughed feyly and held him close, ‘So, I take it we're sharing reasons why we love one another?’ Example sentencesExamples - Whenever Clarence the angel talks longingly about getting his wings, take a shot of bourbon and then mince around the room, flapping your arms as feyly as possible.
noun While the feyness level may not be set as high as that of Nordenstam's, it may still be too much for some. Example sentencesExamples - Yet why not hope for a change in appetite, why not hope that vulnerability, doubt, languor, even feyness, might find a mass market once again?
- But there's a natural lightness, a feyness to some people, and I don't know how that happens.
- The execution is uneven and sometimes marred by the smirky feyness that the magazine occasionally succumbs to, but the spirit of the enterprise is so lively and amusing that Mathews would feel right at home.
- With the latest album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, any lingering wisps of feyness are only there for fun.
OriginOld English fǣge (in the sense 'fated to die soon'), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige 'cowardly'. Rhymesaffray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea Definition of fey in US English: feyadjectivefeɪfā 1Giving an impression of vague unworldliness. 稀奇古怪的；非现世的 his mother was a strange, fey woman 他的母亲是一个神经兮兮的怪女人。 Example sentencesExamples - There are fey frowns and cynical or innocent smiles.
- Endearingly fey one minute, Norton will then go straight for the jugular of some poor, taste-challenged Pom in the audience, or phone an American eccentric on his dog-phone.
- The slightly gauche figure-drawing adds to the carvings' fey allure, but their chief trait is an obsession with describing drapery and water in very low relief through swathes of sinuously convoluted line.
- In today's political climate nothing spells defeat for Democrats more than the image of a bunch of fey, ivory tower eggheads running the military.
- She was a fey creature from beginning to end, clinging to her white dress and teacup, scrawling the odd missive, at a loss in the environment she made her home and among the Warlpiri people who became her rescuers and friends.
- In fact 50% more people in Melbourne stayed with Nicole's fey acting and the slick film making of Baz Luhrmann.
- And then he proceeds to fill them with all kinds of fey things, and blends ‘reality’ with ‘fantasy’ until no one knows which way is up anymore.
- He and co-founder/keyboardist Chris Seligman grew up together in Toronto, best friends who shared a love of fey, pretentious pop from across the pond.
- Matthew MacFadyen is a notably fey King's Justice and Bettany looks tortured and panicked, as if his old employer Lars von Trier was waving to him from behind the camera.
- Pat McGarvey is a lounge pioneer, a man to whom the phrase Austin Powers conjures up an image of the Six Million Dollar Man and his sharp-dressed head honcho Oscar rather than a fey secret agent with alarming dentistry.
- The mother, whom the author renames as Eily, is an archetypal O'Brien heroine - beautiful, free-loving and fey, whose only crime is compassion.
- A year on from their emergence into the public eye, we are swamped with soporific, overwrought, piano-led rock played by lip-trembling white boys with messy hair, student debts and fey voices.
- Rather they convey an image of Ireland as a fey, mysterious place where funny things happen - funny strange and funny ha-ha.
- Depp plays it low camp and fey, with beard braids, gold teeth and smudged mascara, and he does that Mike Myers / Dr Evil hand-to-mouth thing, only with the forefinger.
- They do not have this strange, fey reticence to engage in ‘the blame game.’
- There's something not a little heart-breaking in seeing intelligent, beautiful women whose faces show their experience going through the motions of fey girlishness.
- The Divine Comedy is primarily Neil Hannon, an idiosyncratic, vaguely fey Brit who does a mean impression of Thom Yorke doing a mean impression of Cole Porter.
- My personal distaste for fey singers aside, British quartet the Buffseeds offer up a decent and quite listenable album.
- She'll be in need of some fey, shy boy affections.
- ‘The Second Line’ features the most precious, fey vocal stylings.
Synonyms ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, star-crossed, under a curse, cursed, jinxed, foredoomed, hapless, damned, bedevilled, luckless, unlucky - 1.1 Having supernatural powers of clairvoyance.
有超自然视力的 Example sentencesExamples - Just another human with fey ancestry working for the Grey Detective Agency, where we specialized in supernatural problems, magical solutions.
- King Arthur was surrounded by fey women, all intimately concerned with his fate.
- The key to her salvation is the fascinating combination of her fey powers with her steadfastly mortal mind.
Synonyms ethereal, dreamy, spiritual, mystic, mystical - 1.2Scottish Fated to die or at the point of death.
〈主苏格兰〉注定要死的；濒死的 now he is fey, he sees his own death, and I see it too 他注定要死了，他看见了自己的死亡，我也看见了。 Example sentencesExamples - She has that fey look of someone whose time on Earth was always meant to be short.
- They know a person is "fey," or doomed, but cannot avert the destined events.
OriginOld English fǣge (in the sense ‘fated to die soon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige ‘cowardly’. |