hirsute

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: hir=sute

CIDE DICTIONARY

hirsute, a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus horrid. Cf. Horrid.].

•  Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.  [1913 Webster]
•  Rough and coarse; boorish.  [1913 Webster]

  "Cynical and hirsute in his behavior."  [1913 Webster]
•  Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
•  Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hirsute, adj.
1 hairy, shaggy.
2 untrimmed.

Derivative

hirsuteness n.

Etymology

L hirsutus

THESAURUS

hirsute

barbellate, bristled, bristling, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hispid, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, unshorn, velvety, whiskered, woolly

ROGET THESAURUS

hirsute

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.