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hairy definition
hairy |
Grep of noun hairy hairy-legged vampire bat hairy darling pea hairy finger grass hairy golden aster hairy honeysuckle hairy lip fern hairy root hairy spurge hairy tare hairy tongue hairy vetch hairy willowherb hairy wood mint 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")
hairy definition