HAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haired mean? 

• HAIRED (adjective)
  The adjective HAIRED has 1 sense:

1. having or covered with hair

  Familiarity information: HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or covered with hair

Synonyms:

haired; hairy; hirsute

Context example:

a hairy caterpillar

Similar:

pilary; pilose; pilous (covered with hairs especially fine soft ones)

woolly; woolly-haired; wooly; wooly-haired (covered with dense often matted or curly hairs)

wiry (of hair that resembles wire in stiffness)

wire-haired; wiry-coated ((especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair)

velvety-furred; velvety-haired (having hair that feels like velvet)

tomentose; tomentous (densely covered with short matted woolly hairs)

thick-haired (having thick hair)

stiff-haired (having stiff hair)

soft-haired (having soft hair)

snake-haired ((of monsters) having snakes for hair)

smooth-haired (having hair that feels smooth)

silver-haired (having hair the color of silver)

silky-haired (having hair that resembles silk)

short-haired (with short hair)

shock-headed (having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair)

rough-haired (having hair that feels rough)

canescent; hoary (covered with fine whitish hairs or down)

pappose ((of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles)

long-haired (with long hair)

lanate; woolly (covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments)

hispid ((of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles)

glossy-coated; glossy-furred; glossy-haired (having glossy hair)

fuzzed; fuzzy (covering with fine light hairs)

furred; furry (covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs)

furlike (resembling fur)

floccose ((of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs)

downy; puberulent; pubescent; sericeous (covered with fine soft hairs or down)

dark-coated; dark-haired (covered with dark hair)

curly-coated; curly-haired (covered with curly hair)

comal; comate; comose (of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair)

coarse-furred; coarse-haired (having coarse hair or fur)

 Context examples 

It comes in smooth, broken, and wire-haired varieties.

(Jack Russell Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Both sizes have three coat varieties: the short-haired, the wired-haired, and the long-haired.

(Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)

Besides the common short-haired variety there is also a long-haired type.

(Chihuahua, NCI Thesaurus)

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was a little light-haired gentleman, with undeniable boots, and the stiffest of white cravats and shirt-collars.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Newfoundland went first, followed by the three short-haired pointers, the two mongrels hanging more grittily on to life, but going in the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There are three varieties of Ibizan: smooth-haired, long-haired, and wire-haired.

(Ibizan Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

The name for a short-haired cat that does not have a pedigree nor belong to a specific cat breed.

(Domestic Short Hair Cat, NCI Thesaurus)

A tall, flaxen-haired, slim young fellow opened it, and made us welcome when he understood our errand.

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

“My lord,” said a rough-haired, dark-faced man, who walked by the knight's other stirrup, with his head sloped to catch all that he was saying.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)