English Dictionary

fey

IPA（発音記号）

/feɪ/

形容詞

古語 方言 詩語 廃用 アイルランド英語 スコットランド英語

(dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death. / (obsolete) Dying; dead.

日本語の意味

（詩的・文語的）死に臨んでいる、運命的に絶命寸前の状態 / （古語的）死にかけている、または死に至った状態

The old hound lay fey beneath the oak, its breath shallow and slow.

老犬は樫の木の下で死にかけて横たわり、息は浅く遅かった。

意味（1）

(dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.

Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!”

意味（2）

(obsolete) Dying; dead.

意味（3）

(chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

意味（4）

Overrefined, affected.

His interlocutor was whimsical if not downright fey. He pushed his spectacles to the top of his nose. He shoved them into his greying locks like an effeminate racing driver. He gave Pym sherry and put a hand on his backside in order to propel him to a long window that gave on to a row of council houses.

意味（5）

Strange or otherworldly.

Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.

意味（6）

Spellbound.

more fey （ comparative ）

most fey （ superlative ）