Entry Word: hairy

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 covered with or as if with hair <a hairy spider>

Synonyms bristly, fleecy, furry, hirsute, rough, shaggy, unshorn, woolly (also wooly)

Related Words bearded, mustachioed, whiskered; downy, fluffy, fuzzy, nappy

Near Antonyms beardless, shaved, shaven

Antonyms bald, furless, hairless, shorn, smooth

2 made of or resembling hair <enough hairy clumps around the house to make another cat> <a hairy mass of fiberglass insulation>

Synonyms furry, fuzzy, rough, shaggy, woolly (also wooly)

Related Words downy, fluffy, nappy