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featherless

English

Etymology

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

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, [1]
      […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.

Synonyms

  • apteric
  • unfeathered

Derived terms

  • featherless biped

Translations

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fatherless

English

Etymology

From Middle English faderles, federles, from Old English fæderl?as, from Proto-Germanic *fad?rlausaz, equivalent to father +? -less. Cognate with German vaterlos.

Adjective

fatherless (not comparable)

  1. Without a (living) father.
  2. (figuratively) Without a known author or inventor.

Hypernyms

  • parentless

Coordinate terms

  • motherless

Derived terms

  • fatherlessness

Translations

See also

  • half orphan
  • orphan

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