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What is the adjective for feathery?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb feather which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

feathered
  1. covered with feathers
  2. (rowing) having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion
  3. (engineering, manufacturing) of a finely bevelled edge
  4. (Appalachia) badly beaten
  5. (in combination) Having a specific type of feather.
  6. Synonyms:
featherlike
  1. Having the characteristics of plumage.
  2. As light as a feather.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “In the silver case, there is a particularly fine featherlike dendrite of native silver from the La Nevada mine, Chihuahua, Mexico.”
      “Minimally, this specimen proves that the most featherlike structures in a non-avian Mesozoic vertebrate are found in a late Triassic basal archosaur, a thecodont.”
      “The erect stem of a feather moss has a featherlike, or frondlike, appearance.”
feathery
  1. Resembling feathers.
  2. Covered with feathers.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Hats must be worn, and not little feathery flimsy things, but proper ones which cover the crown.”
      “In the center of the painting, behind what appears to be a feathery layer of cirrus clouds, the cream-colored Hampshire House rises up with its many small windows and mansard roof.”
      “She pretended she was leaning back into feathery pillows embroidered with brilliant yarns like the ones the princess had in her castle.”
feathersome
  1. Characterised or marked by feathers
featherless
  1. Having no feathers.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.”
      “Certainly, the cassowary's clawed wings, scaly legs, featherless heads, wrinkled necks, and large size give them a dinosaur-like appearance.”
      “This was how, he believed, lungs originally arose in a lungless world, and feathers in a featherless one.”
featherly
  1. (obsolete) Like feathers.
featherier
featheriest
feathering
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