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Featherless vs Fatherless - What's the difference?

featherless | fatherless |

As adjectives the difference between featherless and fatherless

is that featherless is having no feathers while fatherless is without a living father.

featherless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having no feathers.

    • Derived terms

    * featherless biped

    Synonyms

    * apteric

    fatherless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a living father.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 17 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless . }}

    Derived terms

    * fatherlessness

    See also

    * half orphan * orphan * motherless * parentless