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feathered

feathered adjective: covered with feathers. Also the simple past and past participle of feather.

Adjective

feathered

  1. Covered with feathers.
    • “Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 11
    • Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.2024 October 31, Ari Daniel, “How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows”, in NPR
  2. Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
  3. Having a finely bevelled edge.
  4. (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
  5. (in-compounds) 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.
    • […]when at night he sees moon and stars, mountain ridges feathered with pines, jutting white capes, bold promontories[…]1869, Mark Twain, chapter XLVIII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 508

Also used as

feathered is also the simple past and past participle of feather.

feathered meaning in Bengali

feathered in Bengali

পালকযুক্ত

Examples of feathered in a sentence

  • The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.
  • After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.
  • Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.

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Questions about feathered

What does feathered mean?
Feathered means covered with feathers.
What is feathered in Bengali?
Feathered in Bengali is পালকযুক্ত. See Feathered meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is feathered?
Feathered is an adjective.

Words near feathered in the dictionary

  1. featherbushes
  2. feathercoat
  3. feathercoats
  4. featherdom
  5. featherdown
  6. feathered
  7. feathered folk
  8. feathered folks
  9. feathered friend
  10. feathered friends
  11. feathered one's nest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feathered (page history and authors); feathered (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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