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featherless

Syllables: feath·er·lessUK/ˈfɛðələs/US/ˈfɛðəɹləs/

featherless adjective: having no feathers.

Adjective

featherless (not comparable)

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

featherless meaning in Tamil

featherless in Tamil

சிறகற்ற

Synonyms of featherless

Origin of featherless

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

Words formed from featherless

Phrases with featherless

Questions about featherless

What does featherless mean?
Featherless means having no feathers.
What is featherless in Tamil?
Featherless in Tamil is சிறகற்ற. See Featherless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is featherless?
Featherless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce featherless?
Featherless is pronounced /ˈfɛðələs/ (UK).

Words near featherless in the dictionary

  1. feathering one's own nest
  2. feathering strip
  3. feathering strips
  4. featherings
  5. featherleaf
  6. featherless
  7. featherless biped
  8. featherless bipeds
  9. featherlessness
  10. featherlet
  11. featherlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: featherless (page history and authors); featherless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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