Definition of FEY

fey

Plural: fey, feys

Adjective Satellite

  • slightly insane
  • suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; ; - John Mason Brown
    • "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"

Adj

  • About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
  • Dying; dead.
  • Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
  • Overrefined, affected.
  • Strange or otherworldly.
  • Spellbound.
  • Magical or fairylike.

Noun

  • A fairy.
  • Fairy folk collectively.
  • Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).

Adjective

  • Having an otherworldly, whimsical, or slightly crazy quality.

Examples

  • His FEY insistence on playing only palindromes was both eccentric and entertaining.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English fey (“fated to die”), from Old English fǣġe (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk- (“ill-meaning, bad”).
Akin to Old Saxon fēgi, whence Dutch veeg (“doomed, near death”), Old High German feigi (“appointed for death, ungodly”) whence German feige (“cowardly”), Old Norse feigr (“doomed”) whence the Icelandic feigur (“doomed to die”), Old English fāh (“outlawed, hostile”). More at foe.

Synonyms

elfin, touched, Woosterian, accursed, affected, asleep, at rest, cadaverous, clay-cold, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, dead meat, deceased, decomposed, defunct, departed, done, doomed, effete, enchanted, ethereal, expired, extinct, fairy, fey, finished, gone, good, hoity-toity, ill-fated, inanimate, inert, kaput, late, lifeless, living impaired, lost, low, moribund, mystical, no longer with us, no more, overrefined, pansified, perished, precious, pretentious, psychic, recherché, reposing, resting, second-sighted, sentenced, sibylline, six feet deep, six feet under, smug, spellbound, stagy, stiff, stilted, sunk, supernatural, theatrical, transcendental, undone, wasted, whilom, with God, wrecked

Scrabble Score: 9

fey: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fey: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fey: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

fey: valid Words With Friends Word