Having the delicate, magical, or enchanting qualities of a fairy; resembling something from a fairy tale.
Compound of 'fairy' (from Old French 'faerie,' meaning enchantment) and 'like' (Old English 'gelīc,' meaning similar to). The suffix '-like' has been used since Middle English to create adjectives describing similarity or resemblance.
The Victorian era's obsession with fairy imagery spawned dozens of '-like' compounds; 'fairylike' specifically captured the period's romantic escape from industrial reality into an idealized natural world.
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