feathered

English

Adjective

feathered

1. Covered with feathers.
   • 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 11:

     “Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”

   • 2024 October 31, Ari Daniel, “How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows”, in NPR:

     Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.

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.
7. (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, chapter XLVIII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 508:

     […] when at night he sees moon and stars, mountain ridges feathered with pines, jutting white capes, bold promontories […]

Synonyms

• befeathered

Derived terms

• feathered folk
• feathered friend
• featheredness
• feathered oof-bird
• fine-feathered friend
• nonfeathered
• pinfeathered
• protofeathered
• unfeathered

Translations

covered with feathers

• Catalan: empenat, emplomallat
• Dutch: bevederd (nl)
• French: emplumé (fr), à plumes
• German: gefiedert (de), mit Federn besetzt, gefedert (de)
• Irish: eiteach
• Italian: pennuto (it) m
• Latin: pennātus, penniger
• Polish: opierzony, pierzasty (pl), upierzony
• Portuguese: emplumado, empenado
• Russian: перна́тый (ru) (pernátyj)
• Spanish: emplumado (es)
• Volapük: plümilabik, (older term) penik (vo)

Verb

feathered

1. simple past and past participle of feather

Anagrams

• defeather