FEATHERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feathered mean? 

• FEATHERED (adjective)
  The adjective FEATHERED has 2 senses:

1. adorned with feathers or plumes

2. having or covered with feathers

  Familiarity information: FEATHERED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEATHERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adorned with feathers or plumes

Synonyms:

feathered; feathery; plumy

Context example:

a feathered hat

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or covered with feathers

Context example:

our feathered friends

Similar:

aftershafted (having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers))

feathery (characterized by a covering of feathers)

featherlike; feathery (resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers)

fledged; vaned ((of an arrow) equipped with feathers)

flighted (having feathers)

pennate (having feathered wings)

plumaged (having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form)

plumate; plumed; plumose (having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft)

plumed; plumy (having or covered with or abounding in plumes)

plumelike; plumy (resembling a plume)

velvety-plumaged (plumage resembling velvet)

Antonym:

unfeathered (having no feathers)

 Context examples 

This work shows that the motion of flapping feathered wings was developed passively and naturally as the dinosaur ran on the ground.

(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)

The Japanese Chin is a small spaniel with a short, broad face, and a soft, feathered coat.

(Japanese Chin, NCI Thesaurus)

The Golden Retriever is a sturdy, well-proportioned dog with a feathered, medium-length, cream to golden-colored coat.

(Golden Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

The Flat-Coated Retriever is a black or liver-colored retriever with a sleek, medium-length, thick coat with well-feathered legs, tail and chest.

(Flat-Coated Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

This particular dinosaur was feathered and about the size of a small bird.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

I had reason to think that he might not need them again, seeing that a thirty-inch shaft had feathered in his back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lowchen, also called the Little Lion, has a short head with pendent, feathered ears.

(Low Chen, NCI Thesaurus)

From the bull’s side, just forward of the flank, protruded a feathered arrow-end, which accounted for his savageness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Its neck has an abundant scarf of hair and its tail is feathered and carried over its back.

(Lhasa Apso, NCI Thesaurus)

The legs, chest, ears, tail and undersides are abundantly feathered.

(Field Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)