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Definitions: Feathery |
FeatheryAdjective1. Suggestive of feathers in lightness; "feathery snowflakes". 2. Resembling a feather or feathers; "feathery palm trees". 3. Characterized by a covering of feathers; "the feathery congregaton of jays". 4. Adorned with feathers or plumes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "feathery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1634. (references) |
Synonyms: FeatherySynonyms: feathered (adj), featherlike (adj), plumy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. |
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| "Feathery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Feathery" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 102 | 32,309 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "feathery": feathery feathered plumy. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "feathery": feathery-leafed, feathery-topped. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
feathery fronds grass new tall zealand | 25 |
feathery fronds grass new zealand | 4 |
feathery fronds grass tall | 3 |
feathery grass new tall zealand | 2 |
feathery fronds | 2 |
feathery wrap | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "feathery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me pupla (downy, eider down, plumose, plumy), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكسو بالريش, ريشي (fluffy, plumy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рехав (lax, loose, loose-textured, straggling), пухкав (cottony, fleecy, fluey, fluffy, sericeous), перушинест, пернат (plumy, winged), перест (cirrous, pinnate, pinnated, plumose, plumy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 羽毛似. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | peřový, jako pírko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ekstraktionsreplikaen viser i hele billedfeltet tilstedevaerelsen af smaa forgrenede partikler foruden smaa krystaller af aluminiumnitrid (the extraction replica showed that very fine feathery precipitates occurred, throughout the whole structure, together with small particles of aluminium nitride), ekstraktionsreplikaen viser en cementit,der er fjerformet (the extraction replicas showed cementite which had a feathery form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het extractiereplica toont dat naast kleine kristallen van aluminiumnitride zeer fijne vertakte uitscheidingen ontstaan (the extraction replica showed that very fine feathery precipitates occurred, throughout the whole structure, together with small particles of aluminium nitride), de extractiereplica's tonen cementiet,dat in de vorm van een veer is gevormd (the extraction replicas showed cementite which had a feathery form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پوشیده ازپر, پرمانند, شبیه به پر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | plumeté, légère, comme plume. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | federartig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φτερωτόσ (featherbed, winged), ελαφρόσ (buoyant, flippant, frivolous, gentle, light, lightsome, resilient, skin deep, slight, yeasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | וצי (fluffy, pennate, plumose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tollas (plumose, plumy), tollszerű, ringó (rolling, to lilt), puha (downy, flossy, limp, mellow, mushy, slack, sloppy, smooth, soft, spongy, tender), pelyhes (downy, flaky, fleecy, fluffy, pubescent), pehelyszerű, pehelykönnyű, hajladozó, elütő színű szőrcsomó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | le repliche di estrazione mostrano una cementitea forma di piuma (the extraction replicas showed cementite which had a feathery form), la replica per estrazione mostra che su tutta la sezione accanto alle piccole cristalliti di alluminio si presentano delle fini particelle ramificate (the extraction replica showed that very fine feathery precipitates occurred, throughout the whole structure, together with small particles of aluminium nitride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fedjagagh (pinnate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | fjærlett, fjærkledd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatheryfay as impressões de extracção mostram uma cementite disposta em forma de espinha (the extraction replicas showed cementite which had a feathery form), a impressão de extracção mostra em todo o campo da imagem a presença de pequenas partículas ramificadas,ao lado de pequenos cristais de nitreto de alumínio (the extraction replica showed that very fine feathery precipitates occurred, throughout the whole structure, together with small particles of aluminium nitride). (various references) оперенный (feathered, plumose), пернатый. (various references) pernat (plumose, plumy). (various references) plumoso (fluffy, plumose, plumy). (various references) fjäderklädd, fjäder- (cirrous, sprung). (various references) ที่มีขนนกปกคลุม, ซึ่งอ่อนนุ่มและเบาเหมือนขนนก. (various references) tüylü (downy, feathered, haired, hairy, hirsute, nappy, penniferous, pilose, pilous, plumed, plumose, plumy, pubescent, woolly), tüy gibi (as light as feather, downy, fuzzy, penniform, plumy). (various references) оперений (feathered), пернатий, перистий (cirrous, pinnate, plumy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Feathery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: felther, Feyther, Fitzhenry, fueather, Neathey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feathery" (pronounced fe"therē or fe"thrē') |
| 4 | -e" th er ē | leathery. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: feather, terefah. | |
-2 letters: aether, afreet, earthy, eatery, father, feater, hafter, hearty, heater, hefter, hereat, reheat, trefah. | |
-3 letters: after, arete, earth, eater, ether, faery, feyer, hater, hayer, heart, hefty, rathe, reefy, rhyta, teary, there, three. | |
-4 letters: aery, arty, eath, eery, eyer, eyra, eyre, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feet, fere, feta, fete, frae, frat, fray. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-h-r-t-y" | |
+5 letters: freeheartedly, halfheartedly, hyperinflated, softheartedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 61 74 68 65 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .- - .... . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e a t h e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071678674718491 |
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