winged
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having wings: Possessing wings or wing-like structures, typically for flight.
- Moving or capable of moving very fast: Characterized by great speed, as if flying.
- Having a specified type or number of wings: Used with a preceding word to describe the nature of the wings.
Usage and Examples
Adjective (Having wings):
- The museum displayed a fossil of a winged reptile.
- Birds and insects are winged creatures.
Adjective (Moving very fast):
- The messenger arrived on winged feet.
- Her winged words carried the news across the city in minutes.
Adjective (With a specified kind of wings):
- The illustration depicted a four-winged angel.
- Scientists studied the long-winged bat species.
Advanced Usage
"Winged victory": A symbolic representation of victory, often depicted as a goddess with wings.
- The statue of Winged Victory is a famous Hellenistic sculpture.
Literary/Figurative Use: To describe something swift, elevated, or transcendent.
- He sent a winged thought of gratitude her way.
Variants and Related Words
- Wing (n): The limb or appendage used for flying.
- Wing (v): To fly or to move swiftly; to wound in the wing or arm.
- Wingless (adj): Lacking wings.
- -winged (suffix): Used in combination to form adjectives (e.g., , ).
Synonyms
- Alate (adj): Having wings or winglike appendages (technical/biological).
- Fleet (adj): Swift, fast.
- Rapid (adj): Moving with great speed.
Antonyms
- Wingless (adj): Having no wings.
- Slow (adj): Moving at a low speed.
Related Idioms and Phrases
On a wing and a prayer: Doing something with only a slight chance of success, relying on hope.
- With the engine failing, the pilot landed the plane on a wing and a prayer.
To wing it: To improvise or do something without preparation.
- I didn't have time to prepare the speech, so I'll just have to wing it.
Adjective
- very fast; as if with wings
- on winged feet
- having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind;
- the winged feet of Mercury