Hirsute - English meaning

adjective

Having a growth of hair on one's cheeks and chin.

Usage examples:

Beside me sat a pair of bearded men

verb

Boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable).

Usage examples:

He was afraid to beard the sultan himself

adjective

Having hair or whiskers growing on the face.

Usage examples:

A bewhiskered old man

adjective

(of a man) with hair on the lower part or sides of the face

Usage examples:

He was a bewhiskered, distinguished-looking gentleman.

adjective

(of hair or foliage) having a stiff and prickly texture.

Usage examples:

He washed his bristly black hair

adjective

Growing thickly.

Usage examples:

A dense, bushy plant

noun

A person who lives in the bush (as distinct from in a town), typically regarded as uncultured or unsophisticated.

Usage examples:

Cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having

adjective

Having hair.

adjective

Having hairlike tufts; hairy.

Usage examples:

The minute branchlets of the yellow thallus produce the irregularly radiated and crinite appearance…

adjective

Made of or lined with a soft, warm fabric.

Usage examples:

A fleecy sweatshirt

adjective

Soft and like a sheep's wool, or looking like this

Usage examples:

Fleecy clouds

adjective

Covered with fur.

Usage examples:

Furry creatures in fields

noun

An enthusiast for animal characters with human characteristics, in particular a person who dresses up in costume as such a character or uses one as an avatar online.

Usage examples:

A growing community of furries

adjective

Covered with fur, or feeling or looking like fur

Usage examples:

A furry animal, she was wearing her bathrobe and pink, furry slippers.

adjective

Having a frizzy texture or appearance.

Usage examples:

Fuzzy fake-fur throw pillows

adjective

Not clear or not easily heard, seen, or understood

Usage examples:

Is the picture always fuzzy on your tv?, the basic facts of the story are starting to emerge though…

adjective

Covered with hair.

Usage examples:

A hairy chest

adjective

Covered with stiff hair or bristles.

Usage examples:

The anthers are villous and the ovary is densely hispid.

adjective

Of, relating to, or consisting of hair.

adjective

Covered with long soft hairs.

Usage examples:

Though they emphasized some within-plant variation of leaf pubescence, cotton cultivars are usually…

adjective

(of hair or fur) long, thick, and unkempt.

Usage examples:

The mountain goat has a long, shaggy coat

adjective

Covered with stubble.

Usage examples:

A stubbly chin

adjective

Not having recently shaved or been shaved.

Usage examples:

Mark was unshaven and looked exhausted

adjective

Not having had the hair removed

Usage examples:

An unshaven chin/man

adjective

Not cut or shorn.

Usage examples:

The men left their locks unshorn

adjective

A sheep or other animal that is unshorn has not had its wool or hair cut off

Usage examples:

The sheep were left unshorn in this study., shorn and unshorn animals were divided for the trial., …

adjective

Made of wool.

Usage examples:

A red woolly hat

noun

A garment made of wool, especially a pullover.

Usage examples:

Bargain hunters snapped up everything from winter woollies to suits and evening wear.

adjective

Made of wool, or made of something that looks like wool

Usage examples:

A woolly hat/jumper, it's the woolly thinking behind the book that i find so infuriating., i can't …