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Adjective
S:
(adj)
hairy
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haired
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hirsute
(having or covered with hair)
"Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
similar to
S:
(adj)
canescent
,
hoary
(covered with fine whitish hairs or down)
S:
(adj)
coarse-haired
,
coarse-furred
(having coarse hair or fur)
S:
(adj)
comate
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comose
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comal
(of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair)
"comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft"
S:
(adj)
curly-haired
,
curly-coated
(covered with curly hair)
"a curly-coated water spaniel"
S:
(adj)
dark-haired
,
dark-coated
(covered with dark hair)
S:
(adj)
downy
,
pubescent
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puberulent
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sericeous
(covered with fine soft hairs or down)
"downy milkweed seeds"
S:
(adj)
floccose
((of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs)
S:
(adj)
furlike
(resembling fur)
S:
(adj)
furred
,
furry
(covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs)
"furred animals"; "a furry teddy bear"
S:
(adj)
fuzzed
,
fuzzy
(covering with fine light hairs)
"his head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed"
S:
(adj)
glossy-haired
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glossy-coated
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glossy-furred
(having glossy hair)
"a glossy-coated foxhound"
S:
(adj)
hispid
((of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles)
"plants with hispid stems"
S:
(adj)
lanate
,
woolly
(covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments)
"the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"
S:
(adj)
long-haired
(with long hair)
"long-haired hippies"
S:
(adj)
pappose
((of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles)
S:
(adj)
pilous
,
pilose
,
pilary
(covered with hairs especially fine soft ones)
S:
(adj)
rough-haired
(having hair that feels rough)
S:
(adj)
shock-headed
(having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair)
"shock-headed teenagers"
S:
(adj)
short-haired
(with short hair)
"a short-haired dog"
S:
(adj)
silky-haired
(having hair that resembles silk)
S:
(adj)
silver-haired
(having hair the color of silver)
S:
(adj)
smooth-haired
(having hair that feels smooth)
S:
(adj)
snake-haired
((of monsters) having snakes for hair)
S:
(adj)
soft-haired
(having soft hair)
S:
(adj)
stiff-haired
(having stiff hair)
S:
(adj)
thick-haired
(having thick hair)
S:
(adj)
tomentose
,
tomentous
(densely covered with short matted woolly hairs)
"a tomentose leaf"
S:
(adj)
velvety-furred
,
velvety-haired
(having hair that feels like velvet)
S:
(adj)
wire-haired
,
wiry-coated
((especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair)
"a wire-haired terrier"
S:
(adj)
wiry
(of hair that resembles wire in stiffness)
"wiry red hair"
S:
(adj)
wooly
,
woolly
,
wooly-haired
,
woolly-haired
(covered with dense often matted or curly hairs)
"woolly lambs"
antonym
derivationally related form
S:
(adj)
hairy
(hazardous and frightening)
"hairy moments in the mountains"