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hairier definition
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Overview of adj hairy The adj hairy has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (2) hairy, hirsute -- (having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar") 2. hairy -- (hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains") Antonyms of adj hairy 2 senses of hairy Sense 1 hairy (vs. hairless), hirsute hairless (vs. hairy) => bald, bald-headed, bald-pated => balding => beardless, smooth-faced => depilatory => depilous => glabrous => tonsured => nonhairy Sense 2 hairy INDIRECT (VIA alarming) -> unalarming Similarity of adj hairy 2 senses of hairy Sense 1 hairy (vs. hairless), hirsute => comate, comose, comal => downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous => floccose => furred, furry => fuzzed, fuzzy => haired => hispid => lanate, woolly => long-haired => pappose => pilous, pilose, pilary => shock-headed => tomentose, tomentous => wire-haired => wooly, woolly => canescent, hoary => furlike Sense 2 hairy => alarming (vs. unalarming) Attributes of adj hairy Familiarity of adj hairy hairy used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count = 2) Grep of adj hairy hairy nonhairy Overview of adj hairy The adj hairy has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (2) hairy, hirsute -- (having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar") 2. hairy -- (hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains")
hairier definition
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