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longhaired

longhaired adjective: having long hair.

Adjective

longhaired (comparative more longhaired, superlative most longhaired)

  1. Having long hair.
    • There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 225
  2. (derogatory, sometimes) Artistic or intellectual.
    • Your new boyfriend is longhaired, highbrowed and penniless: very bohemian but not commercial.
  3. (derogatory) Hippie-like.
    • Those longhaired freaks should get a job.

Forms of longhaired

comparativemore longhaired
superlativemost longhaired

Origin of longhaired

From long + haired.

Questions about longhaired

What does longhaired mean?
Longhaired means having long hair.
What part of speech is longhaired?
Longhaired is an adjective.

Words near longhaired in the dictionary

  1. longgrass
  2. longgrasser
  3. longgrassers
  4. Longhai
  5. longhair
  6. longhaired
  7. longhairs
  8. Longham
  9. longhand
  10. longhands
  11. longhaul

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