Featherlight

Alternative forms

• feather-light

Origin

feather + light

Full definition of featherlight

Adjective

1. Extremely light; light as a feather.
• 2009, April 4, Andrew Clements, LPO/Langrée, That emotional containment was sustained through the finale, too, though Angelich enlivened the episodes with his featherlight passage work; nothing too flash, of course, he's not that kind of pianist.