feathered
Meaning of feathered
- (of a bird) covered with feathers.
black-feathered ostriches
- rotate the blades of (a propeller) about their own axes in such a way as to lessen the air or water resistance.
- float or move like a feather.
the green fronds feathered against a blue sky
- blend or smooth delicately.
feather the paint in, in a series of light strokes
- (of ink, lipstick, etc.) separate into tiny lines after application.
the ink started to feather and smudge
don't you just hate it when you spot that your lipstick has feathered around your lips?
- short for feather cut.
Old English fether, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veer and German Feder, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit patra ‘wing’, Latin penna ‘feather’, and Greek pteron, pterux ‘wing’.
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Hyphenation of feathered
feath-ered
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- feathered is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
feathered synonyms
Meaning feathery:
Translation of feathered
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