haired – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of haired

Adjective: haired

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore haired
Superlativemost haired

Sample Sentences

  • It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards. [1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:]
  • He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer. [1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:]
  • Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail. [2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:]
  • He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis. [1818, Jane Austen, chapter 15, in Persuasion:]
  • Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […] [1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Dombey and Son:]
  • At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it. [1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter 28, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, page 196:]
  • 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145,
  • Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.
  • He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements. [1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:]
  • A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly. [1958, R. K. Narayan, chapter 4, in The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:]
  • Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls. [1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, chapter 5, in The African Image, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 69:]
  • Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches. [1997, Ted Hughes, “Myrrha”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 116, lines 110–113:]
  • She was a raven-haired beauty.

Etymology

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”). See: Dutch Adjectives 'behaard', German Adjectives 'behaart'.