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Elfin

Elfin Meaning & Definition
Elfin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elfin?

[adj] small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"
[adj] suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
[adj] usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"
[adj] relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elfin: elfish | elflike | elvish | fey | little | playful | small | supernatural

Related Terms | Find terms related to Elfin: arch | dainty | diminutive | dumpy | dwarf | dwarfed | dwarfish | elfish | elflike | elvish | faery | fairy | fairyish | fairylike | fay | frolicsome | gnomelike | gnomish | impish | incipient | Lilliputian | little | meager | midget | mischievous | nanoid | pixieish | playful | puckish | pygmy | rudimental | rudimentary | runty | scraggy | scrubby | shriveled | shrunk | shrunken | small | sprightly | squat | stunted | sylphidine | sylphine | sylphish | sylphlike | sylphy | tiny | Tom Thumb | tricky | undersize | undersized | wee | wizened

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Elfin In Webster's Dictionary

\Elf"in\ (-[i^]n), a. Relating to elves.
\Elf"in\, n. A little elf or urchin. --Shenstone.

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