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light as a feather
adjective as in weightless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- agile
- airy
- atmospheric
- buoyant
- crumbly
- dainty
- delicate
- downy
- easy
- effervescent
- featherweight
- feathery
- filmy
- flimsy
- floatable
- floating
- fluffy
- friable
- frothy
- gossamery
- graceful
- imponderous
- insubstantial
- light-footed
- lightweight
- lithe
- little
- loose
- meager
- nimble
- petty
- porous
- portable
- sandy
- sheer
- slender
- slight
- small
- spongy
- sprightly
- sylphlike
- thin
- tissuelike
- trifling
- unheavy
- unsubstantial
Example Sentences
If the shirt was heavy against Scotland, it was as light as a feather against Ireland.
“I looked up at the blue sky and had one of those outer-body moments. I remember feeling light as a feather. And I just started to cry.”
Once it all fell out, my body was as light as a feather.
“Air” is enjoyably facile and light as a feather, though sometimes touching, never more so than in a late, deftly handled face-off between Sonny and Deloris that brings the larger racial stakes of the landmark deal into crystalline focus.
Much lighter than meat-based larb, Gentl describes this variation as “light as a feather” but with “a serious flavor punch.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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