Word.ws English Dictionary

flippered

flippered adjective: having flippers. Also the simple past and past participle of flipper.

Adjective

flippered (not comparable)

  1. Having flippers.
    • But researchers have little doubt that the figure is on a downward slide, as the polar ice sheet on which the mammal depends for every stage of its life thins and retreats from beneath its flippered feet.2008 May 20, Natalie Angier, “Ice Dwellers Are Finding Less Ice to Dwell On”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    flipperless

Also used as

flippered is also the simple past and past participle of flipper.

Antonyms of flippered

Origin of flippered

From flipper + -ed.

Words formed from flippered

Questions about flippered

What does flippered mean?
Flippered means having flippers.
What part of speech is flippered?
Flippered is an adjective.

Words near flippered in the dictionary

  1. Flippens
  2. flipper
  3. flipper babies
  4. flipper baby
  5. flipperdinger
  6. flippered
  7. flippering
  8. flipperless
  9. flipperlike
  10. flipperling
  11. flipperlings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flippered (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “flippered.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/flippered. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.