You don't have to go getting so hairy about such a small thing.
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Hairy
//ˈhɛə.ɹi//
Synonyms for "hairy" (191 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (57)
Related words (95)
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Adjective(2 words)
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
derived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
85 entriesShowing 16 of 85 words.
Translations
162 translations across 56 languages.
Ancient Greek
4 entries- βλοσυρός adj (of a person)
- δασύς adj (of a person)
- δασύς adj (of an animal)
- πολύτριχος adj (of a person)
Arabic
2 entries- مشعر adj (of a person)
- مُشَعَّر adj (of a body part other than the head)
Armenian
3 entries- բրդոտ adj (of an animal)
- թավամազ adj (of an animal)
- մազոտ adj (of a person)
Aromanian
1 entries- piros adj (of a person)
Belarusian
1 entries- валаса́ты adj (of a person)
Bulgarian
3 entries- космат adj (of a person)
- космат adj (of an animal)
- окосмен adj (of a body part other than the head)
Catalan
3 entries- cabellut adj (of a body part other than the head)
- pelut adj (of a person)
- pilós adj (of a person)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 多毛的 adj (of a person)
- 毛茸茸的 adj (of a person)
- 長毛的 /长毛的 adj (of a person)
Danish
4 entries- behåret adj (of a person)
- behåret adj (of a body part other than the head)
- håret adj (of a person)
- håret adj (of a body part other than the head)
Dutch
4 entries- behaard adj (of a person)
- behaard adj (of a body part other than the head)
- harig adj (of a person)
- harig adj (of an animal)
Esperanto
1 entries- vila adj (of an animal)
Estonian
3 entries- karvane adj (of a person)
- karvane adj (of an animal)
- karvane adj (of a body part other than the head)
Finnish
3 entries- karvainen adj (of a person)
- karvainen adj (of an animal)
- karvainen adj (of a body part other than the head)
French
2 entries- poilu adj (of a person)
- poilu adj (of a body part other than the head)
Friulian
1 entries- pelôs adj (of a person)
Galician
4 entries- cabeludo adj (of a person)
- peludo adj (of a person)
- peludo adj (of an animal)
- peludo adj (of a body part other than the head)
Georgian
1 entries- თმიანი adj (of a person)
German
4 entries- behaart adj (of a person)
- behaart adj (of a body part other than the head)
- haarig adj (of a person)
- haarig adj (of a body part other than the head)
Greek
1 entries- τριχωτός adj (of a person)
Hebrew
2 entries- שעיר adj (of a person)
- שעיר adj (of a body part other than the head)
Hungarian
3 entries- szőrös adj (of a person)
- szőrös adj (of an animal)
- szőrös adj (of a body part other than the head)
Ingrian
3 entries- karvain adj (of a person)
- karvain adj (of an animal)
- karvain adj (of a body part other than the head)
Italian
2 entries- peloso adj (of a person)
- peloso adj (of a body part other than the head)
Japanese
2 entries- 毛むくじゃらの adj (of a person)
- 毛深い adj (of a person)
Kapampangan
4 entries- mabuac (Baculud) adj (of a person)
- mabuak adj (of a person)
- mabuwak (Wawa) adj (of a person)
- mabwak adj (of a person)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- tǖmāimài adj (of a body part other than the head)
- tǖmāimài adj (of a body part other than the head)
Latin
4 entries- hispidus adj (of an animal)
- pilosus adj (of a body part other than the head)
- pilōsus adj (of a person)
- pilōsus adj (of an animal)
Latvian
4 entries- matains adj (of a person)
- matains adj (of a body part other than the head)
- spalvains adj (of a person)
- spalvains adj (of an animal)
Macedonian
4 entries- вла́кнест adj (of a person)
- вла́кнест adj (of an animal)
- вла́кнест adj (of a body part other than the head)
- ко́смат adj (of a person)
Maltese
1 entries- muswaf adj (of a person)
Marathi
1 entries- केसाळ adj (of an animal)
Māori
2 entries- pūhuruhuru adj (of a person)
- tuahuru adj (of a person)
Norman
2 entries- pouailu adj (of a person)
- pouailu adj (of a body part other than the head)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- behåra adj (of a person)
- behåra adj (of a body part other than the head)
- behåret adj (of a person)
- behåret adj (of a body part other than the head)
Occitan
1 entries- pelut adj (of a person)
Old English
1 entries- rūh adj (of a person)
Persian
1 entries- پرمو adj (of a person)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- hoarich adj (of a person)
Polish
4 entries- owłosiony adj (of a person)
- owłosiony adj (of a body part other than the head)
- ryzykowny adj (difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating)
- trudny adj (difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating)
Portuguese
3 entries- peludo adj (of a person)
- peludo adj (of an animal)
- peludo adj (of a body part other than the head)
Romanian
1 entries- păros adj (of a person)
Russian
3 entries- волоса́тый adj (of a person)
- волоса́тый adj (of a body part other than the head)
- мохна́тый adj (of an animal)
Sardinian
2 entries- pilosu adj (of a person)
- pirosu adj (of a person)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- molach adj (of a person)
- molach adj (of an animal)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- dlakav adj (of a person)
Slovak
3 entries- chlpatý adj (of an animal)
- chlpatý adj (of a body part other than the head)
- vlasatý adj (of a person)
South Efate
1 entries- ululu adj (of a person)
Spanish
4 entries- lanoso adj (of an animal)
- lanudo adj (of an animal)
- lanuginoso adj (of a person)
- peliagudo adj (difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- fugufugu adj (of an animal)
Swedish
3 entries- hårig adj (of a person)
- hårig adj (of an animal)
- hårig adj (of a body part other than the head)
Tagalog
2 entries- mabalahibo adj (of an animal)
- mabuhok adj (of a person)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྤུ་མང་པོ adj (of a person)
Turkish
4 entries- kürklü adj (of an animal)
- kıllı adj (of a person)
- kıllı adj (of a body part other than the head)
- postlu adj (of an animal)
Ukrainian
2 entries- волоса́тий adj (of a person)
- волоха́тий adj (of a person)
Welsh
1 entries- blewog adj (of a person)
Yiddish
1 entries- האָריק adj (of a person)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
I'm scared of big, black, hairy tarantulas!
Source: tatoeba (513077)
Tom doesn't have hairy arms.
Source: tatoeba (1026174)
Tom raised his hairy fist.
Source: tatoeba (1566887)
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