Hirsute

/həːˈsjuːt/ · adjective

Meaning

Covered in hair or bristles; hairy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
2. (rare) Someone or something that is hirsute.

Example Sentences

A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him.

[…] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.

Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy, And had retained his boyish look beyond The usual hirsute seasons which destroy, With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond Parisian aspect […]

At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.

Depilatories were used for all hirsute parts of the body.

Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]

Virchow is mentioned as having described the “Russian hairy men” the “hirsutes,” who, although their bodies were covered with a thick growth of hair were nevertheless almost entirely devoid of teeth.

Where’s the sockless hirsutes from the grasshopper-bitten wilds of Kansas?

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• more hirsute
• most hirsute
• hirsutes

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