Antonyms for fairy-tale
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
Definition of fairy-tale
Origin :- "oral narrative centered on magical tests, quests, and transformations," 1749, translating French Conte de feés of Madame d'Aulnois (1698, translated into English 1699). As an adjective (also fairytale), attested by 1963.
- As in romantic : adj sentimental, idealistic
- As in mythical : adj make-believe
- As in mythic : adj mythical
- As in mythologic : adj mythical
- As in mythological : adj mythical
- As in fanciful : adj imaginary, romantic
- As in fairy tale : noun children's imaginative story with magical characters
- The tale of the resources of California—vegetable and mineral—is a fairy-tale.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- Our fairy-tale presents these events in their legendary transformation.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like a fairy-tale.
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- He must have seemed to her a figure of romance, a prince out of a fairy-tale.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
- The value of the fairy-tale and the wonder-tale is that they tell about the magic of living.
- Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
- All that's a fairy-tale—trees being dangerous in a thunder-storm!
- Extract from : « Disowned » by Victor Endersby
- But what concerned me most was the failure of the fairy-tale glamour.
- Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad
- And life not being a fairy-tale the improbability of the event almost shocked me.
- Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
- For you must remember that this is a fairy-tale and all fairy-tales have a good ending.
- Extract from : « The Romance of an Old Fool » by Roswell Field
- "It's like a fairy-tale, and going into the gnome's hill," fluttered Magsie.
- Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil
Synonyms for fairy-tale
- absurd
- adventurous
- aerial
- allegorical
- amorous
- bathetic
- bizarre
- blue sky
- capricious
- castles in the air
- charming
- chimerical
- chivalrous
- colorful
- corny
- created
- curious
- daring
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- enchanting
- erotic
- exciting
- exotic
- extravagant
- fable
- fabled
- fabricated
- fabulous
- fairy story
- fairy-tale
- false
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fantasy
- fascinating
- fictional
- fictitious
- fictive
- flaky
- floating
- folkloric
- fond
- ghost story
- glamorous
- ideal
- idyllic
- illusory
- imaginary
- imaginative
- imagined
- impractical
- incredible
- invented
- kinky
- legendary
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- made-up
- Marchen
- maudlin
- mushy
- mysterious
- myth
- mythic
- mythical
- mythologic
- mythological
- nonexistent
- nostalgic
- notional
- offbeat
- on cloud nine
- passionate
- picturesque
- pie in the sky
- pipe dream
- poetic
- preposterous
- pretended
- quixotic
- shadowy
- sloppy
- soppy
- starry-eyed
- storied
- suppositious
- supposititious
- syrupy
- tale
- tear-jerking
- tender
- traditional
- unreal
- unrealistic
- untrue
- utopian
- visionary
- whimsical
- wild
- yarn
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