Featherless

//ˈfɛðələs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having no feathers. not-comparable

    "He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having no feathers wordnet

Synonyms

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unfeatheredaptericaptericimplumedunfeatheredunfeathered

Example

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"After Plato defined a human as a "featherless biped," Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into the Academy. "Behold," he said, "a human!""

Etymology

From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.

Related phrases

featherless biped

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