This dog is shaggy.
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Shaggy
//ˈʃæɡi//
Synonyms for "shaggy" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
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Synonyms
2 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
11 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 26 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kalesh adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- βλοσυρός adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- δασύς adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- λάσιος adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Arabic
1 entries- أَشْعَث adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Bulgarian
3 entries- мъхнат adj (with a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap)
- рунтав adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- чорлав adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Czech
3 entries- chundelatý adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- huňatý adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- střapatý adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Esperanto
1 entries- hirta adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Finnish
3 entries- karkea adj (with a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap)
- pörröinen adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- takkuinen adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
French
1 entries- hirsute adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Galician
1 entries- guedelludo adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
German
4 entries- strubbelig adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- struppig adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- zerzaust adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- zottelhaarig adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Hungarian
1 entries- kócos adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Irish
2 entries- mosach adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- suasánach adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Italian
4 entries- arruffato adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- cappelluto adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- irsuto adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- ispido adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Kazakh
2 entries- барақ adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- сабалақ adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Latin
2 entries- hispidus adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- villōsus adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Macedonian
4 entries- бу́шав adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- ро́шав adj (with a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap)
- ру́нтав adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- чо́рлав adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Māori
2 entries- pūhutihuti adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- tuahuru adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- scheibich adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Polish
2 entries- kosmaty adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- kudłaty adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Portuguese
2 entries- desgrenhado adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- felpudo adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Russian
4 entries- косма́тый adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- лохма́тый adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- мохна́тый adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- патла́тый adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- giobach adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- giobach adj (with a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap)
- molach adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- rundav adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- рундав adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Spanish
4 entries- chascón adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- desgreñado adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- desmelenado adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- despeinado adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Swedish
3 entries- lurvig adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- raggig adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- rufsig adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Ukrainian
4 entries- волохатий adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- кошлатий adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- кудлатий adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
- патлатий adj (with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
I opened his shaggy safe with my leather key.
Source: tatoeba (2852191)
He was big and shaggy.
Source: tatoeba (3608753)
I brushed my dog's shaggy coat.
Source: tatoeba (10513134)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.