fay

Questions about fay

What is another word for fay?

It depends which fay you mean. In the sense “a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers”, the synonyms are fairy, faery, faerie, sprite. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of fay?

WordNet records no antonym for fay. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for fay come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of fay

• Full entry for fayAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fayWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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