English

Adjective

featherless ‎(not comparable)

1. Having no feathers.
   • 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, Chapter , p. 128,

     He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.

   • 1929, Robert E. Howard, "Rattle of Bones" in Weird Tales, June 1929,

     […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.

Derived terms

• featherless biped

Synonyms

• apteric
• unfeathered