Unseelie
See also: unseelie
English
Etymology
From (Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from) Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.
Noun
Unseelie (plural Unseelie)
- (fantasy, folklore) A malevolent or malicious fairy.
Adjective
Unseelie (comparative more Unseelie, superlative most Unseelie)
- (fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc).
- Unseelie wights
- 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books (→ISBN)
- “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.
- 2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin (→ISBN)
- “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?”
Antonyms
- Seelie
Anagrams
- eleusine