elfin

Adjective

• usually good-naturedly mischievous
  • perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
    
  • elvish tricks
    

• relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
  • elfin bells
    
  • all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance
    

• small and delicate
  • she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate
    
  • obsessed by things elfin and small
    

• suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
  • thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
    
  • the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday- John Mason Brown
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  elfish , elvish , elflike , fey