feathery
/ˈfɛð(ə)ri
/adjective
Having, covered with, or resembling feathers: wisps of feathery blonde hair...
- Hats must be worn, and not little feathery flimsy things, but proper ones which cover the crown.
- I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
- That one sweet moment of tender love and care, wrapped up in a light feathery kiss.
Synonyms
feathered, plumed, plumy;
downy, fluffy, fuzzy, fleecy
technical plumose, plumate
flimsy, delicate, diaphanous, fine, thin, sheer, gossamer, gossamer-like, gossamer-thin, gossamery, gauzelike, gauzy, wispy, floaty, insubstantial, unsubstantial, ethereal, incorporeal, vaporous, airy;
light, lightweight, feather-like, light as a feather
Derivatives
featheriness
/ noun ...- Certainly the meaning of Miro's art is neither sand nor tar nor the featheriness of the feather nor the ropiness of rope.
- Just look at all these cuts in the thick rubber that give the piece its featheriness.
Rhymes
- welcomeness
- welcomer
- Welcome Wagon
- welcomingly
- weld
- weldability
- weldable
- welder
- weldmesh
- welfare
- welfare benefit
- welfare capitalism
- welfare dependency
- welfare economics
- welfare fraud
- welfare fund
- welfare hotel
- welfare manager
- welfare queen
- welfare reform
- welfare roll
- welfare state
- welfare statism
- welfare statist
- welfare to work