See Unseelie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "unseely",
"t": "mischievous, evil-doing"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "unsely"
},
"expansion": "Middle English unsely",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "unsǣliġ"
},
"expansion": "Old English unsǣliġ",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "unsilly"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of unsilly",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Unseelie",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Unseelie"
},
"expansion": "Unseelie (plural Unseelie)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fantasy",
"orig": "en:Fantasy",
"parents": [
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Folklore",
"orig": "en:Folklore",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mythological creatures",
"orig": "en:Mythological creatures",
"parents": [
"Fantasy",
"Mythology",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A malevolent or malicious fairy."
],
"id": "en-Unseelie-en-noun-WVuDD27M",
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"folklore",
"folklore"
],
[
"fairy",
"fairy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy, folklore) A malevolent or malicious fairy."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"fantasy",
"folklore",
"history",
"human-sciences",
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Unseelie"
],
"word": "Unseelie"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "Seelie"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "unseely",
"t": "mischievous, evil-doing"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "unsely"
},
"expansion": "Middle English unsely",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "unsǣliġ"
},
"expansion": "Old English unsǣliġ",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "unsilly"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of unsilly",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more Unseelie",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most Unseelie",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Unseelie (comparative more Unseelie, superlative most Unseelie)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fantasy",
"orig": "en:Fantasy",
"parents": [
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Folklore",
"orig": "en:Folklore",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 52",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mythological creatures",
"orig": "en:Mythological creatures",
"parents": [
"Fantasy",
"Mythology",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Unseelie wights"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "“That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.”\n“I cannot always choose how the magic will come.”\n“It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin, →ISBN:",
"text": "“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?”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc)."
],
"id": "en-Unseelie-en-adj-DSU3LV~E",
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"folklore",
"folklore"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc)."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"fantasy",
"folklore",
"history",
"human-sciences",
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Unseelie"
],
"word": "Unseelie"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English indeclinable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Scots",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Scots",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Mythological creatures"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "unseely",
"t": "mischievous, evil-doing"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "unsely"
},
"expansion": "Middle English unsely",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "unsǣliġ"
},
"expansion": "Old English unsǣliġ",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "unsilly"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of unsilly",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Unseelie",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Unseelie"
},
"expansion": "Unseelie (plural Unseelie)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Fantasy",
"en:Folklore"
],
"glosses": [
"A malevolent or malicious fairy."
],
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"folklore",
"folklore"
],
[
"fairy",
"fairy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy, folklore) A malevolent or malicious fairy."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"fantasy",
"folklore",
"history",
"human-sciences",
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Unseelie"
],
"word": "Unseelie"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "Seelie"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English indeclinable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Scots",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Scots",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Mythological creatures"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sco",
"3": "unseely",
"t": "mischievous, evil-doing"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "unsely"
},
"expansion": "Middle English unsely",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "unsǣliġ"
},
"expansion": "Old English unsǣliġ",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "unsilly"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of unsilly",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more Unseelie",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most Unseelie",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Unseelie (comparative more Unseelie, superlative most Unseelie)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Fantasy",
"en:Folklore"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Unseelie wights"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "“That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.”\n“I cannot always choose how the magic will come.”\n“It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin, →ISBN:",
"text": "“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?”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc)."
],
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"folklore",
"folklore"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc)."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"fantasy",
"folklore",
"history",
"human-sciences",
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Unseelie"
],
"word": "Unseelie"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Unseelie meaning in English (4.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.