Downy

Definition: Downy

Downy

Adjective

1. Like down or as soft as down.

2. (biology) covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "downy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Downy

Roughness

Downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate, lanated; lanuginous, lanuginose; tomentose; fluffy.

Smoothness

Adjective: smooth; polished; Verb: leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level; plane; (flat); sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly; (feathery).

Softness

Flaccid, flocculent, downy; edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow.

Crosswords: Downy

I dream of being in a Las Vegas hotel where all of the towels smell like Downy Fabric Softener (Feeling Minnesota; writing credit: Steven Baigelman)

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Books

• Advances in the Downy Mildew Research (reference)

• Downy Duckling (Rhyming Stories) (reference)

• Downy Duckling/Soft and Furry Board Book (reference)

• Downy mildew of sorghum (reference)

• Downy Mildews (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "downy": downy ash ♦ downy beard ♦ downy birch ♦ downy brome ♦ downy bromegrass ♦ downy cheat ♦ downy chess ♦ downy cocktail ♦ downy ground cherry ♦ downy haw ♦ downy manzanita ♦ downy mildew ♦ downy poplar ♦ downy wood mint ♦ downy woodpecked ♦ Downy woodpecker ♦ downy yellow violet ♦ mosaic form of downy mildew. Additional references.

Beginning with "downy": downy-cheeked, downy-clad.

Albanian

si push (Flossy, fluffy), me push (nappy, piled), me pupla (eider down, feathery, plumose, plumy), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ناعم (cosiness, delicate, fine, gentle, glace, mellow, neat, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, soft, springy, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), ‏أملس (lubricious, sleek, slick, smooth, soapy, unctuous, unruffled), ‏أزغب (hairy, nappy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хълмист (billowy, hillocky, hilly, rolling), нежен (affectionate, dainty, delicate, dovelike, fatherly, fond, fragile, frail, loving, maidenly, melodious, melting, slender, soft, sweet, tender, womanly), мъхест (bristly, mossy), пухест. (various references)

Chinese 

綿 (cotton, incessant, soft), �"软 (Ductile, limbo, supple, suppleness, tenderness). (various references)

Czech

prachový (plushy), péřový, ochmýřený, hebký (creamy, furry, smooth, soft). (various references)

Danish

dunbirk (downy birch, pubescent birch), duneg (downy oak, pubescent oak), kaalskimmel (downy mildew of cabbage), blaaskimmel (blue mould, dapple-gray horse, dapple-grey horse, downy mildew), bladskimmel (downy mildew), bloedhaaret eg (downy oak, pubescent oak), almindelig hanekro (common hemp-nettle, downy common hemp-nettle), gul hanekro (downy hempnettle, yellow hempnettle), vinskimmel (downy mildew of grapevine, grape downy mildew), loegskimmel (downy mildew of beet, downy mildew of sugar beet), meldugresistent (downy mildew resistance), Peronospora (downy mildew), star (celebrity, star), taghejre (brome grass, broncho grass, cheatgrass brome, downy chess), tobakskimmel (downy mildew of tobacco, tobacco blue mould). (various references)

Dutch

valse (blue mould, downy mildew), gewone hennepnetel (common hemp-nettle, downy common hemp-nettle), meeldauw (blue mould, downy mildew, mildew, oidium), mozaïekmeeldauw (mosaic form of downy mildew), muurdravik (brome grass, broncho grass, cheatgrass brome, downy chess), onvatbaarheid voor meeldauw (downy mildew resistance), peronospora (blight, downy mildew, mildew, peronospora), bleekgele hennepnetel (downy hempnettle, yellow hempnettle), truffeleik (downy oak, pubescent oak), zwenkdravik (brome grass, broncho grass, cheatgrass brome, downy chess), valse meeldauw (blight, downy mildew, downy mildew of beet, downy mildew of cabbage, downy mildew of grapevine, downy mildew of sugar beet, grape downy mildew, mildew, peronospora), valse meeldauw van de suikerbiet (downy mildew of beet, downy mildew of sugar beet), viltige zegge (downy-fruited sedge), zachte berk (downy birch, pubescent birch), zachte eik (downy oak, pubescent oak), zachte haver (downy oatgrass, hairy oatgrass), zachte wikke (downy vetch, fodder vetch, hairy vetch, Russian vetch, sand vetch, winter vetch), zandwikke (downy vetch, fodder vetch, hairy vetch, Russian vetch, sand vetch, winter vetch), resistentie tegen meeldauw (downy mildew resistance). (various references)

Farsi 

ملایم (Benign, Bland, Breezy, Clement, Easy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Meek, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), مانندپرریز, نرم (Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Limber, Lithe, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), کرک دار. (various references)

Finnish

untuvapeitteinen, untuvainen (fluffy). (various references)

French

duveteux, duveté, velouté, roublard (dodger), malin. (various references)

German

flaumig (cottony, downey, fluffy, fuzzy). (various references)

Greek 

χνουδωτόσ (Flossy, fluffy, nappy, pileous, pubescent), χνουδάτοσ (fluffy, fuzzy). (various references)

Hebrew 

פלומתי. (various references)

Hungarian

pelyhes (feathery, flaky, fleecy, fluffy, pubescent), dombos (hilly, mamillary, rangy, undulating). (various references)

Indonesian

berbukit. (various references)

Italian

sveglio (able, adroit, alert, awake, brainy, bright, clever, cute, deft, dexterous, proficient, quick, sharp, skillful, smart, wakeful, wide awake), soffice (pillowy, soft, softly), morbido (silky, smooth, soft, squashy, tender), lanuginoso (fluffy, fuzzy), coperto di lanugine, accorto (cunning, shrewd). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�毛 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うぶ�'. (various references)

Manx

clooieagh (feathered, feathery, fleecy, pubescent, pubic, woolly). (various references)

Pig Latin

ownyday.(various references)

Portuguese

suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douce, dulcet, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambent, lamblike, lenient, meek, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, piano, placable, pleasant, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, sweet, tender), pubescente (hairy, pilose, pilous, pubescent), ondulado (corrugated, crimp, fuzzy, ripply, rolling, undulate, undulated, waved), macio (cottony, creamy, cushiony, fleecy, fluffy, gentle, lithe, mellow, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, soft, tender), aveludado (mellow, peachy, sericeous). (various references)

Romanian

viclean (arch, artful, astute, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), pufos (fluffy, fuzzy, piled, soft), cu puf, ca puful, şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy). (various references)

Russian 

пушистый (cottony, feathery, fleecy, fluey, fluffy, furry). (various references)

Scottish

cléit (downy feather, flake of snow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

paperjast (eider down, fluffy). (various references)

Spanish

velloso (dowry, fluffy, fuzzy, haired, hairy), prodigioso (prodigious, wonderful). (various references)

Swedish

dunig (Flossy, fluffy), luden (hairy, shaggy), luddig (fluffy, fuzzy, nappy, woolly), fjunig (Flossy, fuzzy). (various references)

Turkish

yumuşacık (cottony, cuddlesome, cuddly, fleecy, fluffy, pillowy, silken, silky, velvety, wooly), tüylü (feathered, feathery, haired, hairy, hirsute, nappy, penniferous, pilose, pilous, plumed, plumose, plumy, pubescent, woolly), tüy gibi (as light as feather, feathery, fuzzy, penniform, plumy), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), havlı (nappy), anasının gözü (dodgy, smart). (various references)

Ukrainian

м'який (cat-like, cottony, creamy, delicate, genial, gentle, kindly, limp, melodious, mild, mushy, non-rigid, pulpy, soft, yielding), пуховий, пухнастий (cottony, fluffy, furry, mossy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh khôn (argute), nhấp nhô (popply, undulate, undulating). (various references)

Avena pubescens Huds., Avenochloa pubescens Holub, Betula pubescens, Bromus tectorum, Carex filiformis L., Carex tomentosa L., Galeopsis segetum Neck., Galeopsis tetrahit, Peronospora, Peronospora brassicae, Peronospora farinosa, Peronospora schachtii, Peronospora tabacina, Plasmopara halstedii, Plasmopara helianthi, Plasmopara viticola, Quercus pubescens, Vicia villosa Roth. (various references)

Misspellings

"Downy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bowny, Dawnay, Dawny, Dewdney, Diwaniya, Dobney, donay, donny, donty, dony, donyo, doonie, Dounby, dowan, dowayo, Downay, downie, downm, dowsy, dowwnn, drowny, Duwynt, Oddny, Owinyi, rowny, towny. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: down, wynd, yond.

-2 letters: don, dow, nod, now, own, won, wyn, yod, yon, yow.

-3 letters: do, no, od, on, ow, oy, wo, yo.

+3 letters: downplay, honeydew, howdying, nonwoody, nowadays, pandowdy, playdown, wontedly, woodenly.

+4 letters: downplays, honeydews, playdowns, unworldly, wyandotte.

+5 letters: donkeywork, downplayed, downwardly, untowardly, unwontedly, wondrously, wyandottes.