Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with hair; hairy.
- adj. Botany Covered with stiff or coarse hairs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Hairy; shaggy.
- 2. Specifically, in zoology and botany, rough or bristling with hairs; having a thick covering of long and rather stiff hairs.
- Coarse; boorish; unmannerly.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
- adj. rare Rough and coarse; boorish.
- adj. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or covered with hair
Etymologies
- From Latin hirsūtus ("shaggy, hairy"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin hirsūtus, hairy, bristly. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A certain hirsute mutant may want to rethink that next trip to England.”
“Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap.”
“For decades the right had successfully demonized women who embraced the label as hirsute succubi, family-scorning and erotically disadvantaged old bags.”
“I loved that "hirsute" was used; I always remember that one by thinking it is someone saying "hair suit" with a really thick accent.; p”
“[[Genesis]], the son of [[Isaac]], was notably hirsute; his name means 'hirsute' in”
“' 'Esau' '' ([[Hebrew]]: '' 'עֵשָׂו' '', '' Ēśāw '', "hirsute") or '' 'Edom' '' ([[Hebrew]] '' 'אֱדוֹם' '', ʾĔḏôm, "red") (b.”
“It paired her with an unlikely collaborator in Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, who produced the record, wrote its stirring title song and helped usher Ms. Staples back onto concert bills she might not have graced otherwise — including this one in Gowanus with indie Americana artist Jolie Holland and TV on the Radio's hirsute utility-man Kyp Malone.”
The Wall Street Journal: From Ska to Soul, a Flavor for Every Tastemaker
“Sadly enough, once upon a time the shower advantage was about all we hirsute folk could get.”
The Huffington Post: Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Good Night, and Don't Let the Bedbugs Paralyze
“Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hirsute’.
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GRE 2014
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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GRE Barron's 800
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Jesse's random
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
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Used
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Deadwood Dick
venison, vim, sanguine, gulch, maudlin, hirsute, pare, cavalcade, twain, repast, cognomen, florid and 3 more...
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Bodily
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Vocab to Learn
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big book gre
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
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Joe's list
Fissiparous Weekly Standard Nigeria a fissiparous country 3/2012
fissiparous, inchoate, punctilious, synecdoche, apocryphal, superadd, pedant, pedagogy, astigmatic, inter alia, aphoristically, eponymous and 131 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hirsute.
Casey "They wound through the ranks of the deformed and obese, the bizarrely hirsute and the small." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Sep 26, 2011
jorge999 she is cold and demanding
in her business suit
dismissive, haughty,
(yet inspiring hot pursuit!)
and underneath
hirsute, hirsute! Nov 6, 2009
reesetee Vs. hairless, don't forget.
What I don't get is all the stray parentheses floating around in WeirdNet. Close them, for crying out loud!
*having an editorial conniption* Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear Thanks, WeirdNet: "Hmm... what does hirsute mean? Ah, here it is... it means... hirsute." Nov 30, 2007