feathersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by feathers.
Example Sentences
- "I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing, / His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling—— / Careening in liberty higher and higher—[...]"
- "With the rise of writing 'leaf' was taken over as a reasonable word for the piece of material on which to write and 'quill' for the instrument with which to write, though the quill gradually became less and less feathersome."
- "Furthermore, the birds orientate themselves carefully with regard to the sun and gently flap their feathersome wings to increase convective cooling."
- "They didn't have to move to the east with the more feathersome Arapaho in '75 because they chose to be self- supporting and law-abiding residents of this here state capital."
- ""Nothing to worry about. Just a bit of dungeon work — does a man good to do an honest day's work now and then. Mind you, I do miss the royal, um, you know . . . plumpy-feathersome- spring-'n'-bounce?""
Etymology
Etymology tree English feather Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English feathersome From feather + -some.
Inflected Forms
more feathersome (comparative)
most feathersome (superlative)