DARK-HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dark-haired mean? 

• DARK-HAIRED (adjective)
  The adjective DARK-HAIRED has 2 senses:

1. having hair of a dark color

2. covered with dark hair

  Familiarity information: DARK-HAIRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARK-HAIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hair of a dark color

Synonyms:

black-haired; brown-haired; dark-haired

Context example:

a dark-haired beauty

Similar:

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Covered with dark hair

Synonyms:

dark-coated; dark-haired

Similar:

haired; hairy; hirsute (having or covered with hair)

 Context examples 

The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In he walked, a middle-sized, dark-haired, dark-eyed, black-bearded man, with a touch of the Sheeny about his nose.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)