unfeathered a having no feathers the unfeathered legs of an Orpington s not having feathers the unfeathered brood Usage(s) The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow unfeathered. Once she got into teaching, and then into the deanship, Virginia kept Barnard-on-the-subway a lot like herself: unfeathered, serious, competent. He feathered it a while, then unfeathered just before we hit the German border. Synonym(s) featherless Antonym(s) feathered