hirsute
UK/həːˈsjuːt//hɚˈsut/
hirsute adjective: covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
Adjective
hirsute (comparative more hirsute, superlative most hirsute)
- Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
- 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.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 3, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC...
- […] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee...
- Synonyms:
- hairy, nonglabrous
Noun
hirsute (plural hirsutes)
- Someone or something that is hirsute.
- 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.1929 April, James D. Frankel, “Anomalies of the Fetal Ectoderm (Dr. Zimmerman, Vierteljarsschr. f. Zahnheilk. 44:419, No. 3, 1928)”, in The Journal of the American Dental Association, volume 16...
- Where’s the sockless hirsutes from the grasshopper-bitten wilds of Kansas?1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2
hirsute meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
hirsute in Tamil
- மயிர் அடர்ந்த, மயிரடர்ந்த, முடி மூடிய, உரோமி, மயிர்மிகைப்பு, மிகமுடி
hirsute in Marathi
- hirsute
- केसाळ kesāḷ
hirsute in Urdu
- بال دار, کھردرا
hirsute in Bengali
- লোমশ, রোমশ, ঝোপালো চুলে ঢাকা
More languagesFewer languages
- hirsute in Malayalam
- രോമാവൃതനായ, രോമനിബിഡമായ, രോമമുള്ള, ബഹുലോമ
- hirsute in Kannada
- ನವಿರು ತುಂಬಿದ, ನವಿರಡಸಿದ
Examples of hirsute in a sentence
- At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Jew Old-clothes Men”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume II (The London Street-folk. Book the...
- Depilatories were used for all hirsute parts of the body.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 81:
- Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]2008, Desmond Morris, chapter 2, in The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, London: Vintage, page 30:
- THE hairy fibrous or hirsute begonias (either term is correct, though the latter is preferred) are not so well known as those already discussed, but they are just as lovely.1960 winter, Margaret M. Lee, “Worth Exploring: The Begonia Family”, in California Garden, volume 51, number 4, San Diego, Calif.: San...
Synonyms of hirsute
Antonyms
Forms of hirsute
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more hirsute |
| superlative | most hirsute |
| Noun | |
| plural | hirsutes |
Origin of hirsute
From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).
Words formed from hirsute
Words that rhyme with hirsute
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
Questions about hirsute
- What does hirsute mean?
- Hirsute means covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
- What is hirsute in Tamil?
- Hirsute in Tamil is மயிர் அடர்ந்த, மயிரடர்ந்த, முடி மூடிய. See Hirsute meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hirsute in a sentence?
- At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.
- What part of speech is hirsute?
- Hirsute can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hirsute?
- Hirsute is pronounced /həːˈsjuːt/ (UK).
Words near hirsute in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hirsute (page history and authors); hirsute (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); केसाळ (Marathi) (page history and authors); hirsute (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Hirsute (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hirsute (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hirsute (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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