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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hirsute has 1 sense
- hirsute(a = adj.all) haired, hairy - having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" Derived form noun hirsuteness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
hirsute, a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus horrid. Cf. Horrid.].
- Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy. [1913 Webster]
- Rough and coarse; boorish. [1913 Webster]"Cynical and hirsute in his behavior." [1913 Webster]
- Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. Gray. [1913 Webster]
- Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hirsute, adj.
1 hairy, shaggy.
2 untrimmed.
1 hairy, shaggy.
2 untrimmed.
Derivative
hirsuteness n.
Etymology
L hirsutus
THESAURUS
hirsute
barbellate, bristled, bristling, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hispid, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, unshorn, velvety, whiskered, woollyROGET THESAURUS
hirsute
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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