Synonyms of pixie

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adjective

variants also pixy

as in wicked

tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness

resorted to some pixie high jinks to liven up the office party

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wicked
• mischievous
• impish
• elvish
• playful
• roguish
• sportful
• puckish
• pixieish
• naughty
• rascally
• prankish
• spirited
• knavish
• devilish
• waggish
• tricksy
• sly
• energetic
• arch
• cunning
• espiègle
• leprechaunish
• scampish
• kittenish
• whimsical
• lively
• coltish
• frolicsome
• frisky
• antic
• sportive
• coy
• crafty
• teasing
• sprightly
• lighthearted
• wily
• happy
• artful
• tricky
• gay
• troublemaking
• trickish
• misbehaving
• pestering
• riling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• grave
• stern
• solemn
• grim
• sober
• staid
• sedate

pixie

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noun

ˈpik-sē 

variants also pixy

as in fairy

an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers

leave a dish of milk and some bread out for the pixies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fairy
• elf
• goblin
• troll
• gnome
• faery
• faerie
• dwarf
• fay
• brownie
• leprechaun
• puck
• sprite
• gremlin
• hobgoblin
• kobold
• ghoul
• banshee
• little people
• hag
• changeling
• imp
• kelpie
• ogre
• nixie

Examples of pixie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Revel, a kombucha brewery and tasting room, will release a pixie tangerine kombucha. —Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022

Maurice is a genially bearish man, with curly brown hair, who looks like a brainier John Laroquette; Katia, with short hair and glasses and a vivacious grin, suggests a pixie version of Terry Gross. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022

Noun

The girl had a pixie mullet and an impeccable jawline. —Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024

In their place stood a well-coiffed, 4-foot-7 pixie with merry eyes and extravagantly rolled r’s (German was her first language, English her fourth) and a girlish screech of a laugh. —Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 15 July 2024