featherless
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɛðələs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛðəɹləs/
- Hyphenation: feath‧er‧less
Adjective edit
featherless (not comparable)
- Having no feathers.
- 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128:
- He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.
- 1929 June, Robert E. Howard, “Rattle of Bones”, in Weird Tales:
- […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.