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hairy

adjective

1 hairy

Having or covered with hair:
— Jacob was a hairy man.
— A hairy caterpillar.

synonyms: haired, hirsute.

Roget 205: filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform; fibrous, fibrillous; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform; funicular, wire-drawn; ... show more

Roget 256: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, ... show more

Dutch: behaard, oorlogszuchtig
Polish: włochaty

2 hairy

Hazardous and frightening.


Moby thesaurus: Herculean, abstruse, arduous, asperous, barbellate, barfy, bearded, bewhiskered, bristled, bristling, bristly, brutal, bum, bushy, capillary, chancy, cheesy, cirrose, cirrous, comate ... show more.

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