The newly hatched baby birds were way too feathery.
Source: tatoeba (5134280)
Feathery
//ˈfɛ.ðəɹ.i//
Synonyms for "feathery" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 15 languages.
Belarusian
3 entries- пярна́ты adj (covered with feathers)
- пёрысты adj (resembling feathers)
- пёрысты adj (covered with feathers)
Bulgarian
2 entries- пе́рест adj (resembling feathers)
- перна́т adj (covered with feathers)
Czech
1 entries- pernatý adj (covered with feathers)
French
1 entries- plumeux adj (covered with feathers)
German
1 entries- gefiedert adj (covered with feathers)
Irish
2 entries- clúmhach adj (resembling feathers)
- clúmhach adj (covered with feathers)
Italian
2 entries- piumoso adj (resembling feathers)
- piumoso adj (covered with feathers)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- fjæret adj (resembling feathers)
- fjæret adj (covered with feathers)
- fjærete adj (resembling feathers)
- fjærete adj (covered with feathers)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- fjørete adj (resembling feathers)
- fjørkledd adj (covered with feathers)
Polish
2 entries- pierzasty adj (resembling feathers)
- pierzasty adj (covered with feathers)
Russian
2 entries- пе́ристый adj (resembling feathers)
- перна́тый adj (covered with feathers)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pèrnat adj (resembling feathers)
- pèrnat adj (covered with feathers)
- пѐрнат adj (resembling feathers)
- пѐрнат adj (covered with feathers)
Slovak
1 entries- pernatý adj (covered with feathers)
Spanish
1 entries- plumoso adj (covered with feathers)
Ukrainian
4 entries- пери́стий adj (resembling feathers)
- перна́тий adj (covered with feathers)
- пір'я́стий adj (covered with feathers)
- пір'ї́стий adj (resembling feathers)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful.
Source: tatoeba (5833940)
Gooseneck barnacles sweep the water with their feathery legs to catch plankton.
Source: tatoeba (6604247)
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centred upon his own silly self.
Source: tatoeba (6621992)
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