Meaning

3 senses
  1. Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.

    The chick's downy coat of feathers formed almost immediately to keep it warm.

    flaumig

    пухо́выйpuxóvyj, пуши́стыйpušístyj

    covered with fine soft hairs or down

  2. (dated, slang)Sharp-witted, perceptive.

  3. (Norfolk, UK)Low-spirited; down in the mouth.

    like down or as soft as down

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The peach's downy skin glowed softly in the summer sun.

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  2. The kitten's downy fur felt impossibly soft between her fingers.

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  3. The duckling's downy feathers made it look like a tiny ball of sunshine.

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  4. A layer of downy frost covered the grass in the early morning light.

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Translations

5 languages
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Forms

downier, downiest
Comparativedownier Lesson
Superlativedowniest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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