elfin

Plural: elfins

Adjective Satellite

• suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; ; - John Mason Brown
  • "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"
• small and delicate
  • "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"
  • "obsessed by things elfin and small"
• usually good-naturedly mischievous
  • "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"

Adjective

• relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
  • "elfin bells"
  • "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"

Noun

• An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
• A little urchin or child.
• Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys.

Adj

• Relating to or resembling an elf or elves, especially in tiny size or features.

Synonyms

elfish, elflike, elvish, fey, list in elven

Anagrams of elfin