elfin
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1 elfin
Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness:
— Thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning.
synoniem: fey.
Roget 193: little; small etc. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable etc. (unimportant) 643; exiguous, ... meer laten zien
2 elfin
Small and delicate:
— She was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate.
— Obsessed by things elfin and small.
synoniem: elflike.
Roget 980: demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal; fiendish, fiend-like; supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral; ghostly, ghost-like; ... meer laten zien
3 elfin
Relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf.
4 elfin
Usually good-naturedly mischievous:
— Perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, arch, dainty, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfish, elflike, elvish, faery, fairy, fairyish, fairylike, fay, frolicsome, gnomelike, gnomish ... meer laten zien.
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