featherless

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

featherless (not comparable)

1. Having no feathers.
   • 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, Chapter, p. 128,

     He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.

   • 1929, Robert E. Howard, "Rattle of Bones" in Weird Tales, June 1929, [1]

     […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.

Synonyms

• apteric
• unfeathered

Derived terms

• featherless biped

Translations

having no feathers

• Breton: dibluñv (br)
• Catalan: implume
• German: federlos
• Hungarian: tollatlan, csupasz (hu)
• Italian: implume (it)
• Latin: implūmis
• Polish: bezpióry (pl), nieopierzony
• Spanish: implume
• Turkish: tüysüz (tr)