Thesaurus:hirsute

Thesaurus

hirsute

English

Adjective

Sense: covered in hair, fur or bristles

Synonyms

• hairy
• hirsute
• nonglabrous

Hyponyms

• furred
• furry
• shaggy
• downy
• fleecy
• flocculent
• fluffy
• fuzzy
• lanate
• pilose
• puberulent
• velutinous
• bristly
• bushy
• hispid

Antonyms

• bald
• callow
• calvous
• depilous
• glabrous
• hairless
• smooth    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• dasypygal

Further reading

• “256. roughness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hirsute” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.