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FEATHERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adorned with feathers or plumes
Example:
a feathered hat
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or covered with feathers
Example:
our feathered friends
Classified under:
Similar:
aftershafted (having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers))
feathery (characterized by a covering of feathers)
featherlike; feathery (resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers)
fledged; vaned ((of an arrow) equipped with feathers)
flighted (having feathers)
pennate (having feathered wings)
plumaged (having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form)
plumate; plumed; plumose (having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft)
plumed; plumy (having or covered with or abounding in plumes)
plumelike; plumy (resembling a plume)
velvety-plumaged (plumage resembling velvet)
Antonym:
unfeathered (having no feathers)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb feather
Context examples:
It has a feathered, silky coat that comes in shades of chestnut to mahogany, sometimes with splashes of white on the chest and feet.
(Irish Setter, NCI Thesaurus)
The medium-length coat is flat or wavy and feathered, and comes in liver and white, and black and white, blue or liver roan.
(English Springer Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
The American Cocker Spaniel has very long hanging ears, a rounded head, and a profuse, feathered, medium-length coat.
(American Cocker Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
The Brittany is a vigorous, medium-sized, leggy dog with a fairly short, lightly feathered single coat.
(Brittany Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
The long feathered ears are pendant and hang along its cheeks.
(English Toy Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
It has a feathered coat and a long, chiseled and massive head.
(Gordon Setter, NCI Thesaurus)
Meg, in the other boat, was delightfully situated, face to face with the rowers, who both admired the prospect and feathered their oars with uncommon 'skill and dexterity'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He encountered a feathered whirlwind.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In a minute they were feathered with them, and yet with no sign of pain they clawed and slobbered with impotent rage at the steps which would lead them to their victims, mounting clumsily up for a few yards and then sliding down again to the ground.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For the study, the researchers chose Caudipteryx zoui, a dinosaur about the size of a peacock known to have feathered wings but not flight.
(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)
