fairy-tale-like
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fairy tale; implausibly ideal or romantic, having a happy ending, etc.
Example Sentences
- "Like a twisted Alice sucked down the rabbit hole, Sandy describes her imprisonment as a series of fairy-tale-like hallucinations."
- "Directly above me, on the plateau, sat the magnificent fortress. At night, bathed in soft lights, it appeared to be sitting magically up in the black sky. Even now, I become excited when I think about this fairy-tale-like scene."
- "And here they are, some of the most strange and beautifully crafted public interiors in Britain for many years. Here are polished concrete caverns, complex timber roofs, fairy-tale-like committee rooms and private offices to read fairy tales in."
Etymology
From fairy tale + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fairy-tale-like (comparative)
most fairy-tale-like (superlative)
fairy tale-like (alternative)
fairy-talelike (alternative)
fairytalelike (alternative)