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feathered

feathered

28 1.6
Covered or decorated with feathers
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɛðərd/
translation icon : emplumado
  • A painting of a warrior dressed in jaguar skin and wearing a feathered headdress decorates one cave wall.
  • feathered headdress
  • feathered bonnet
  • feathered costume

And like a massive quill, a huge, huge feathered quill, yes.

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Examples

  • This was just yesterday, and this is an Oscar de la Renta feathered gown.

  • Get a feathered hat for the baby

  • She had a really stunning kind of feathered dragon armor display.

  • A golden-haired god, dressed in white with large, feathered wings, hovered in the air.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The effigies were finally dressed in feathered tunics and adorned with necklaces and trophy heads.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The bird's brightly colored feathered wings shimmered in the sunlight.

  • She wore a beautiful dress decorated with feathered patterns.

  • At the costume party, he stood out in his feathered hat and cape.

Synonyms

plumed
vsfeathered
1 6.7

Having feathers on a bird or used as decoration on clothing

is used for general covering or many decorative pieces rather than one
plumy
vsfeathered
1 8.1

Having soft feathers like a bird's crest

is primarily about being covered or decorated rather than texture
plumaged
vsfeathered
7.6

Having a certain kind of feathers, often with bright color

is generally covered or decorated with bird pieces
in full feather
vsfeathered
  • Archaic
9.2

Wearing bright feathers or the best clothes and looking proud

is about being simply covered or decorated with bird parts
flighted
vsfeathered
7.2

Having feathers or parts that let birds and arrows fly

focuses on being covered or decorated, not on flight ability

Antonyms

Having no feathers on part or all of the body

Compounds

Smeared with tar and covered with feathers to punish or shame in public

1 6.5

A pet bird often kept and loved like a parrot

How Feathery

feathered
28 1.6
featherless
1 4.1

Surface Forms

feathered positive

Morphology

feathered = feather (transparent) = feather + ed

The adjective is a regular participial/ adjectival formation from the noun 'feather' meaning 'covered with or having feathers', which is directly predictable by learners.

Etymology

The word feathered comes from the old English root feather meaning 'feather' and the ending -ed that shows 'having', so feathered means 'covered with or decorated with feathers'.