elfin

  • (s) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
    • thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
    • "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
    fey,
  • (s) small and delicate
    • she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate
    • obsessed by things elfin and small
    elflike,
  • (a) relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
    • elfin bells
    • all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance
  • (s) usually good-naturedly mischievous
    • perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
    • elvish tricks
    elfish, elvish,

Synonyms

fey elflike elfish elvish

Words of close approximity