1
[ adjective ] having or covered with hair

Synonyms

hirsute

Examples

"Jacob was a hairy man" "a hairy caterpillar"

Used in print

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

As we have already seen in the first chapter , bumblebees are bigger , hairier , and much more colorful than honeybees , exhibiting various combinations of black , yellow , white and orange .

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

He knew the faces of all , hairy or shaven , old or young , fat or thin , suffering or hardened , sad or gay , good or bad .

Related terms

hairless haired fuzzed furred floccose lanate wire-haired hispid long-haired furlike comate pilous pappose tomentose shock-headed wooly pilary short-haired downy canescent

2
[ adjective ] hazardous and frightening

Examples

"hairy moments in the mountains"

Related terms

alarming

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Rhymes with

harry eyrie airy wherry sherry jerry cherry tarry parry wary very dairy gary merry bury nary fairy terry wherry berry carry vary ferry barrie perry mary marry azeri sperry clary prairie scary glengarry canary unwary remarry guarneri dispensary contrary raspberry dewberry bradbury hackberry statuary blackberry cranberry mulberry blueberry honorary gooseberry sudbury primary woodbury library aviary rosemary nonmilitary customary seminary mortuary monetary sedentary dietary necessary monastery culinary momentary secretary undersecretary unitary commissary military missionary centenary cemetery mercenary secondary cassowary cardiopulmonary savagery luminary literary sanitary topiary tributary veterinary bicentenary legendary beneficiary judiciary lapidary salutary auxiliary arbitrary january ancillary involuntary itinerary revolutionary sanctuary intermediary interplanetary inflationary interdisciplinary recessionary imaginary incendiary huckleberry illusionary reactionary temporary tertiary visionary hereditary pulmonary quaternary probationary proprietary subsidiary functionary funerary formulary fragmentary preliminary fiduciary feb february dictionary precautionary deflationary strawberry urinary planetary extraordinary counterrevolutionary coronary corollary expeditionary contrary contemporary constabulary confectionery pituitary commentary cometary stationery evidentiary evolutionary estuary cautionary epistolary pecuniary stationary capillary canterbury unsanitary dysentery budgetary emissary diversionary dromedary paramilitary discretionary ordinary disciplinary dignitary obituary solitary unnecessary apothecary vocabulary voluntary adversary actuary waterbury

Phonetic and Homophones

HH EH1 R IY0 harry

Similar Spelling

hair Harry haywire Harr Haro hare Hara Haar Hayer Hauer Haire harrow Harrah

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