Dictionary

featherless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɛðələs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈfɛðəɹləs/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having no feathers.
   • […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face. 1929 June, Robert E. Howard, “Rattle of Bones”, in Weird Tales:
   • He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful. 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128:

Coordinates

defeathered · plucked

Deriveds

featherlessness · featherless biped

Relateds

wingless · hairless · furless · flightless

Synonyms

apteric · unfeathered

Translations (13)

fi sulaton (having no feathers) · hu csupasz (having no feathers) · it implume (having no feathers) · ota تویسز (having no feathers) · pl nieopierzony (having no feathers) · ca implume (having no feathers) · pl bezpióry (having no feathers) · es implume (having no feathers) · tr tüysüz (having no feathers) · la implūmis (having no feathers) · hu tollatlan (having no feathers) · de federlos (having no feathers) · br dibluñv (having no feathers)