Adjective: elfin el-fin
- Small and delicate
"she was an elfin creature — graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small";
- elflike
- Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
"thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning";
- fey
- Usually good-naturedly mischievous
"perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight";
- elfish, elvish
- Relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
"elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"
See also: little, ludic [formal], playful, small, supernatural
Encyclopedia: Elfin