English > hairy: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or covered with hair. |
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| Examples | - "Jacob was a hairy man"
- "a hairy caterpillar"
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| Synonyms | haired, hirsute |
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| Narrower | canescent, hoary | Covered with fine whitish hairs or down |
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| coarse-haired, coarse-furred | Having coarse hair or fur |
| comate, comose, comal | Of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair |
| curly-haired, curly-coated | Covered with curly hair |
| dark-haired, dark-coated | Covered with dark hair |
| downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous | Covered with fine soft hairs or down |
| floccose | (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs |
| furlike | resembling fur |
| furred, furry | Covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs |
| fuzzed, fuzzy | Covering with fine light hairs |
| glossy-haired, glossy-coated, glossy-furred | Having glossy hair |
| hispid | (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles |
| lanate, woolly | Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments |
| long-haired | With long hair |
| pappose | (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles |
| pilous, pilose, pilary | Covered with hairs especially fine soft ones |
| rough-haired | Having hair that feels rough |
| shock-headed | Having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair |
| short-haired | With short hair |
| silky-haired | Having hair that resembles silk |
| silver-haired | Having hair the color of silver |
| smooth-haired | Having hair that feels smooth |
| snake-haired | (of monsters) having snakes for hair |
| soft-haired | Having soft hair |
| stiff-haired | Having stiff hair |
| thick-haired | Having thick hair |
| tomentose, tomentous | densely covered with short matted woolly hairs |
| velvety-furred, velvety-haired | Having hair that feels like velvet |
| wire-haired, wiry-coated | (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair |
| wiry | Of hair that resembles wire in stiffness |
| wooly, woolly, wooly-haired, woolly-haired | Covered with dense often matted or curly hairs |
| Opposite | hairless | Having no hair or fur |
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| Spanish | hirsuto, peluda, peludo, piloso, velludo |
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| Catalan | hirsut, pelut, pilós |
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| Nouns | hair | a filamentous projection / projection or process on an organism |
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| hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head) |
| hairiness | the quality of having hair |
