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featherheaded

featherheaded is the alternative form of feather-headed.

Meaning of feather-headed

Adjective

feather-headed (comparative more feather-headed, superlative most feather-headed)

  1. (colloquial) foolish or frivolous
    • ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 54, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.

Forms of featherheaded

comparativemore featherheaded
superlativemost featherheaded

Questions about featherheaded

What is featherheaded the alternative form of?
Featherheaded is the alternative form of feather-headed.

Words near featherheaded in the dictionary

  1. featherfoot
  2. featherfoots
  3. feathergrass
  4. feathergrasses
  5. featherhead
  6. featherheaded
  7. featherheads
  8. featherier
  9. featheries
  10. featheriest
  11. featherily

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