featherless

English

Etymology

From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.

Adjective

featherless (not comparable)

Having no feathers.
- 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, Chapter, p. 128,
  He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.
- 1929, Robert E. Howard, "Rattle of Bones" in Weird Tales, June 1929,
  […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.

Synonyms

apteric
unfeathered

Derived terms

featherless biped

Translations

having no feathers

Breton: dibluñv (br)
Catalan: implume
German: federlos
Hungarian: tollatlan, csupasz (hu)
Italian: implume (it)
Latin: implūmis
Polish: bezpióry (pl), nieopierzony
Spanish: implume
Turkish: tüysüz (tr)