shaggy

shaggy

adjective

Definition of SHAGGY

1

covered with or as if with hair <a big, shaggy dog kept trying to lick my face>

Synonyms bristly, brushy, cottony, fleecy, furred, furry, hirsute, rough, shaggy, silky, unshorn, woolly (also wooly)

Related Words bearded, bewhiskered, mustachioed (also moustachioed), whiskered; stubbled, stubbly; downy, fluffy, fuzzy, linty, nappy

Near Antonyms beardless, shaved, shaven

Antonyms bald, furless, glabrous, hairless, shorn, smooth

2

made of or resembling hair <a shaggy carpet that was a relic of the 1970s>

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

Related Words downy, fluffy, nappy, puffy; hairlike