unseelie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Unseelie.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Unseelie.
noun
A malevolent or malicious fairy.
adj
Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc).
Example Sentences
- "Unseelie wights"
- "“That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.” “I cannot always choose how the magic will come.” “It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said."
- "“I am very Unseelie Tuatha Dé. Almost one hundred percent, in fact. Only a drop of Seelie to muddy the pool. Do you have a problem with that, Shining One?”"
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more unseelie (comparative)
most unseelie (superlative)