Downy
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adjective.
Made of or covered with down.
adjective.
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adjective.
Resembling down.
adjective.
Quietly soothing; soft.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having downs; containing downs.
Covered with down or nap.
Having the character or structure of down; resembling down: as,
downy
plumage.
Made of down or soft feathers.
Soft; soothing; calm.
Knowing; cunning: as, a downy cove.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
adjective.
Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
adjective.
Cunning; wary.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
adjective.
Having
down
, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective.
like down or as soft as down
adjective.
covered with fine soft hairs or down
Word Usage
"Benelli's UltraLight 12 gauge was the last word in downy-light autoloaders - until now."
cross-reference
soft
Equivalent
haired
hairy
hirsute
soft
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
Brownie
Downey
Townie
brownie
county
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
blue-black
bristly
bushy
close-cropped
feathery
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
airy
artful
astute
attenuate
attenuated
variant
downier
downiest