featherless
Bare of down
Featherless means lacking feathers.
A newly hatched bird is featherless until its plumage grows in.
The word appears in Plato's famous definition of a human as a "featherless biped"—which Diogenes mocked by presenting a plucked chicken.
Out in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- helplessUnable to act independently
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
delicate · weak · susceptible · endangered · at-risk · unshielded · unarmored · precarious
Without developed feathers
- hatchlingRecently emerged young
- nestlingUnfledged young bird
- chickYoung bird, especially poultry
- newbornInfant just delivered
immature · juvenile · pinfeather · down · molting · fledgling · baby · young
Greek philosopher, academy founder
definition · rational · mortal · anthropology · species · classification · taxonomy · essence
bald
Without hair on head
denuded · stripped · nude · naked · unclothed · glabrous · smooth · flesh · epidermis · dermis
exposed
Out in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- helplessUnable to act independently
fragile · delicate · weak · susceptible · endangered · at-risk · unshielded · unarmored · precarious · threatened
unfledged
Without developed feathers
newborn · immature · juvenile · pinfeather · down · molting · fledgling · baby · young · undeveloped
Plato
Greek philosopher, academy founder
Diogenes · definition · rational · mortal · anthropology · species · classification · taxonomy · essence · nature
plucked
Pulled out forcefully
goose · fowl · bird · dressed · prepared · carcass · roasting · cooking · butchered · skinned
featherlessdowny
Having soft, fine texture
fluffy · plumy · befeathered · fully-fledged · crested
feather, feathers, feathered, feathering, unfeathered, defeathered, featherlike