Meaning of DOWNY
| Pronunciation: | | 'dawnee
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- [adj] (biology) covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
- [adj] like down or as soft as down
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| | Synonyms: | | downlike, flossy, fluffy, hairy, hirsute, puberulent, pubescent, sericeous, soft |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Down"y\ (-[y^]), a.
1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. ``A
downy feather.'' --Shak.
Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon
their leaves. --Bacon.
2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft;
placid; soothing; quiet. ``A downy shower.'' --Keble.
``Downy pillow.'' --Pope.
Time steals on with downy feet. --Young.
3. Cunning; wary. [Slang, Eng.] --Latham.
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| | Definition: | | Covered with short, fine hairs. |
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| | Related Terms: | | airy, artful, astute, attenuate, attenuated, bubbly, crafty, cunning, dainty, deep, delicate, ethereal, even, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flat, fleecy, flossy, fluffy, foamy, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, gossamer, gossamery, guileful, hirsute, imponderous, insidious, lanate, leger, leiotrichous, level, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plane, pubescent, refined, regular, satin, satiny, silky, sly, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, souffle, suave, thin-spun, tricky, unbroken, unheavy, uniform, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, wily, wiredrawn, woolly, yeasty |
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