Word Type

Verb

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "feather" can be used as verb, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

spats

Typical Location

bid bird bird cage birds birds nest birds rear end cage cap feather duster featherduster hat pillow

Capable Of

float on water float through air

Coordinate Terms

key spline

Derived Terms

Indian feather moss Mexican feather grass afterfeather beak and feather disease beam feather befeather birds of a feather blood feather cock feather cock-feather contour feather cut a feather defeather dot or feather down feather feather Christmas tree feather alum feather bed feather boa feather duster feather duster worm feather edge feather edger feather grass feather in one's cap feather in one's hat feather merchant feather one's nest feather one's own nest feather ore feather oyster feather pen feather shot feather spray feather star feather stick feather tree feather wool feather-bed feather-brain feather-brained feather-dust feather-grass feather-headed feather-heeled feather-legged bug feather-light feather-tailed glider feather-tailed possum feather-veined featherable featherback featherbed featherbedding featherbone featherbrain featherbrained feathercoat featherdom featherdown feathered featherer featherfoil featherfoot feathergrass featherhead featherily featheriness feathering float feathering screw feathering strip feathering wheel featherleaf featherless featherlet featherlight featherlike featherly feathermaker feathermonger feathermoss feathern featherpate featherpated feathersome featherstitch feathertail featherweed featherweight featherwise featherwood featherwork feathery fine feathers make fine birds flight feather gayfeather horsefeathers ice feather in fine feather in full feather in high feather knock one over with a feather knock someone down with a feather knock someone over with a feather light as a feather make the feathers fly midfeather of a feather parrot's-feather parrotfeather pennaceous feather pin feather pinfeather plug and feather powder-down feather prince's feather princess-feather protofeather quill feather rosy feather star ruffle a few feathers ruffle some feathers saddle feather sea feather secondary feather show the white feather spit feathers swine's feather tailfeather tar and feather tar-and-feather the feathers fly unfeather watch the feathers fly

Context

aeronautics carpentry computer graphics engineering rowing snooker

Has Property

light

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

acquire animal material conjoin cover develop get grow join paddle produce rotary motion rotation row

Type Of (IsA)

animal material body covering external anatomical part extruded body part group of things protrusion rotation solid object

Manner Of

cover join paddle row

Part Of

bird rowing

Related Terms

Featherston Featherstone Featherstown Featherton Feathertown fletchings

Related Terms

adjustment aircraft angular arrange arrow axis bevel bird birds of feather blend clydesdale cock cover cue cue ball dog draft horse enrich fin flight feather horizontal horse intergrade longitudinal oar pixel plug and feathers propeller reduce resistance rotate shaft shave shim spline streamline strip tip tread water wind windmill wing

Synonym Network

feathers fledge

Used For

bird's wing decoration feathering nest filling pillow flight helping birds fly make laugh making birds pretty making pen protecting bird stuffing pillow tickle tickle lover tickle people tickling write or tickle

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.