feathered

English

Adjective

feathered

1. Covered with feathers.
2. (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
3. (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
4. (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
5. (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.

   a blue-feathered bird

6. (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.

Synonyms

• befeathered

Derived terms

• feathered folk
• feathered friend
• feathered oof-bird

 

Translations

covered with feathers

• Dutch: bevederd
• French: emplumé
• German: gefiedert, mit Federn besetzt, gefedert
• Irish: eiteach
• Italian: pennuto m
• Latin: pennātus, penniger
• Polish: opierzony, pierzasty, upierzony
• Portuguese: emplumado, empenado
• Russian: перна́тый (pernátyj)
• Spanish: emplumado
• Volapük: plümilabik, (older term) penik

Verb

feathered

1. simple past tense and past participle of feather

Anagrams

• defeather