[ US /ˈdaʊni/ ]
[ UK /dˈa‍ʊni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. covered with fine soft hairs or down
    downy milkweed seeds
  2. like down or as soft as down

How To Use downy In A Sentence

  • If the hair is fairly fine and downy, either on the upper lip or the cheeks, then bleaching is by far the best solution.
  • The re-growth can be any texture and colour, from fine, downy, white hair to your natural look.
  • The timing corresponds with the formation of spores in a funguslike pathogen that attacks the plant and results in a condition known as downy mildew disease. NYT > Home Page
  • The feathers are all fluffy and downy, too soft to even make a pillow out of.
  • Common onion diseases include damping off, botrytis leaf blight, downy mildew, and bacterial blight.
  • I said I didn't think it would be a big deal, everyone has that fine downy, near-invisible hair.
  • Downy Woodpeckers form monogamous breeding pairs in late winter.
  • White hair blows forward on to his temples, flutters like downy feathers over his ears.
  • Snow fell steadily from the smooth gray sky, coating the ground in downy white.
  • Stingless bees can mummify invading beetles in resin scientists have found that stingless bees are not easy targets for predators, as they can mummify invading parasitic beetles in The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 12/21/2009 12: 27: 04 PM MST Downy woodpecker by Paul Higgins Picoides pubescens The downy is the smallest and most widespread of American Medlogs - Recent stories
View all