Word.ws English Dictionary

fairhaired

fairhaired is the alternative form of fair-haired.

Meaning of fair-haired

Adjective

fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)

  1. Having fair hair.
    • Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!1783, William Blake, “To the Evening Star”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 6
    Synonyms:
    blond
  2. Given special treatment as a favorite.
    • Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531
    Synonyms:
    blue-eyed

Forms of fairhaired

comparativemore fairhaired
superlativemost fairhaired

Questions about fairhaired

What is fairhaired the alternative form of?
Fairhaired is the alternative form of fair-haired.

Words near fairhaired in the dictionary

  1. fairgoers
  2. fairgoing
  3. fairground
  4. fairgrounds
  5. Fairgrove
  6. fairhaired
  7. Fairhall
  8. Fairhalls
  9. fairhanded
  10. fairhandedly
  11. fairhandedness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fairhaired (page history and authors); fair-haired (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fairhaired.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fairhaired. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.