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Adjective: hairy (hairier,hairiest)  heh-ree
  1. Hazardous and frightening
    "hairy moments in the mountains"
     
  2. Having or covered with hair
    "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar";
    - haired, hirsute

Derived forms: hairier, hairiest

See also: alarming, canescent, coarse-furred, coarse-haired, comal, comate, comose, curly-coated, curly-haired, dark-coated, dark-haired, downy, floccose, furlike, furred, furry, fuzzed, fuzzy, glossy-coated, glossy-furred, glossy-haired, hispid, hoary, lanate, long-haired, pappose, pilary, pilose, pilous, puberulent, pubescent, rough-haired, sericeous, shock-headed, short-haired, silky-haired, silver-haired, smooth-haired, snake-haired, soft-haired, stiff-haired, thick-haired, tomentose, tomentous, velvety-furred, velvety-haired, wire-haired, wiry, wiry-coated, woolly, woolly-haired, wooly [N. Amer], wooly-haired [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Hairy