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Antonyms for featherweight
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : feth -er-weyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛð ərˌweɪt |
- big
- black
- broad-minded
- brunette
- clumsy
- coarse
- colorful
- concentrated
- consequential
- dark
- darkened
- dense
- difficult
- dim
- dusky
- efficient
- fat
- flushed
- generous
- gloomy
- grave
- heavy
- heavyweight
- important
- inflated
- laborious
- large
- liberal
- major
- obese
- obscure
- oppressive
- plump
- rough
- serious
- significant
- solemn
- solid
- strict
- strong
- thick
- undiluted
- useful
- weighted
- wide
Definition of featherweight
Origin :- also feather-weight, the lightest allowable, 1812 (earlier as simply feather, 1760), from feather (n.) + weight. Originally in horse-racing; boxing use dates from 1889.
- As in light : adj not heavy
- As in lightweight : adj inconsequential
- As in thin : adj fine, light, slender
- As in lank : adj thin
- As in twiggy : adj thin
- As in weedy : adj thin
- As in weightless : adj light
- As in wimp : noun weakling
- With the featherweight the swing is very liable to get out of gear.
- Extract from : « The Complete Golfer [1905] » by Harry Vardon
- Some canoeists take with them a suit of featherweight oilskin.
- Extract from : « Packing and Portaging » by Dillon Wallace
- That was not a difficult feat since she was but a featherweight.
- Extract from : « The Phantom Town Mystery » by Carol Norton
- I am not as strong as I once was so I bought a featherweight one.
- Extract from : « The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It » by Walter Winans
- Adams laughed, took the thing up with one hand, and raised it to his shoulder as though it had been a featherweight.
- Extract from : « The Pools of Silence » by H. de Vere Stacpoole
- "I had no idea Americans were so romantic," said Lady Sellingworth, with just a touch of featherweight malice.
- Extract from : « December Love » by Robert Hichens
- My stampede had carried his featherweight body a couple of yards, but it stopped me and I got my mind back, partly.
- Extract from : « The Big Time » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
- She seemed only a featherweight when the bewildered doctor helped her to alight—an undoubted sprite and creature of romance.
- Extract from : « The Doctor's Family » by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
- Then he set it down again in its old position as gently as though it had been a featherweight.
- Extract from : « Roger the Bold » by F. S. Brereton
- None of your featherweight, gas-lightened, paper-thin alloy shells, but toughened aluminum from stern to stern.
- Extract from : « Friend Island » by Francis Stevens
Synonyms for featherweight
- agile
- airy
- all skin and bones
- angular
- atmospheric
- attenuate
- attenuated
- baby
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- buoyant
- cadaverous
- caitiff
- chicken
- chicken heart
- chicken liver
- coward
- cream puff
- crumbly
- crybaby
- dainty
- daisy
- delicate
- downy
- easy
- effervescent
- emaciated
- ethereal
- failing
- featherweight
- feathery
- filmy
- fleshless
- flimsy
- floatable
- floating
- fluffy
- foolish
- fragile
- fraidy-cat
- friable
- frothy
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- gossamery
- graceful
- haggard
- imponderous
- incompetent
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- insubstantial
- jellyfish
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- light as a feather
- light-footed
- lightweight
- lily liver
- lithe
- little
- loose
- loser
- meager
- milksop
- momma's boy
- namby-pamby
- narrow
- nimble
- of no account
- paltry
- pansy
- pantywaist
- peaked
- petty
- pinched
- pole
- porous
- portable
- puny
- puppy
- pushover
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- sandy
- scaredy-cat
- schlemiel
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sheer
- shriveled
- sissy
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- spongy
- sprightly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- sylphlike
- thin
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- tissuelike
- trifling
- trivial
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- unheavy
- unimportant
- unsubstantial
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- weightless
- wizened
- worthless
- wuss
- wussy
- yellow belly
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