feather-like
Delicate and wispy
Feather-like describes something resembling a feather in form—light, delicate, with fine branching structures radiating from a central line.
The word applies to leaves, frost patterns, clouds, or any wispy, plume-shaped thing: feather-like fronds of a fern, feather-like crystals on the window.
Having soft, fine texture
- fluffySoft and light-textured
- softYielding to touch
- wispyThin and insubstantial
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
silky · airy · gossamer · plush · velvety · cottony · fine · ethereal
Having no heft
- buoyantAble to float
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- airyLight and well-ventilated
- insubstantialLacking physical or material substance
light · ethereal · gossamer · flimsy · drifting · hovering · nimble · wafting
downy
Having soft, fine texture
delicate · silky · airy · gossamer · plush · velvety · cottony · fine · ethereal · billowy
weightless
Having no heft
insubstantial · light · ethereal · gossamer · flimsy · drifting · hovering · nimble · wafting · effortless
fringed
Edged with dangling threads
striated · fibrous · vaned · branching · rachis · filamentous · fernlike · layered · serrated · tapered
fluttering
Light, rapid movement
wafting · swaying · hovering · swirling · undulating · rippling · spiraling · dancing · billowing · settling