Downy

a.	1.	Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. - Bacon.
	2.	Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. Time steals on with downy feet. - Young.
	3.	Cunning; wary.

Adj.	1.	downy - like down or as soft as down Synonyms: downlike, flossy, fluffy
	2.	downy - covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" Synonyms: puberulent, sericeous, pubescent

airy, artful, astute, attenuate, attenuated, bubbly, crafty, cunning, dainty, deep, delicate, ethereal, even, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flat, fleecy, flossy, fluffy, foamy, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, gossamer, gossamery, guileful, hirsute, imponderous, insidious, lanate, leger, leiotrichous, level, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plane, pubescent, refined, regular, satin, satiny, silky, sly, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, souffle, suave, thin-spun, tricky, unbroken, unheavy, uniform, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, wily, wiredrawn, woolly, yeasty

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