hairy

The word “hairy” has 2 syllables: hair-y

It's pronounced as /ˈhɛri/


What is synonym and antonym for hairy?

In the thesaurus, “hairy” has 121 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for hairy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for hairy

  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • agitating
  • anxious
  • awkward
  • bearded
  • bewhiskered
  • bothersome
  • bristly
  • brushy
  • burdensome
  • bushy
  • catchy
  • chancy
  • complex
  • complicated
  • cottony
  • creepy
  • delicate
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • discommoding
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • disquieting
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dodgy
  • downy
  • embarrassing
  • exacting
  • exhausting
  • fleecy
  • flocculent
  • fluffy
  • foreboding
  • fraught
  • furred
  • furry
  • fuzzy
  • hairlike
  • hard
  • hazardous
  • hirsute
  • importunate
  • inconvenient
  • intricate
  • involved
  • jeopardous
  • knotty
  • lanate
  • linty
  • misgiving
  • moustachioed
  • mustachioed
  • nail-biting
  • nappy
  • nasty
  • nerve-racking
  • nerve-wracking
  • nervous
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • painful
  • perilous
  • pileous
  • piliferous
  • pilose
  • prickly
  • problem
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • pubescent
  • puffy
  • recondite
  • restive
  • restless
  • risky
  • rough
  • scabrous
  • scary
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • shaggy
  • silky
  • spiny
  • sticky
  • strained
  • stressful
  • stubbled
  • stubbly
  • stubborn
  • tense
  • thorny
  • ticklish
  • touchy
  • tough
  • treacherous
  • tricksy
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • troublous
  • tufted
  • uncertain
  • uneasy
  • unhealthy
  • unnerving
  • unrestful
  • unsettling
  • unshaven
  • unshorn
  • unsound
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • villous
  • whiskered
  • wicked
  • woolly
  • wooly
  • worrisome

Antonyms for hairy

Meanings of hairy

  • adjective
    1. Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
    2. Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
    3. Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
    4. Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
    5. Causing anxiety or fright; terrifying, scary.

Example Sentences

  • The hiker navigated the hairy terrain with caution, mindful of loose rocks.
  • His hairy encounter with a bear in the forest left him shaken but unharmed.
  • The old attic was filled with cobwebs and hairy spiders, sending shivers down her spine.
  • The climber faced a hairy ascent up the steep mountain slope.
  • She always avoided the hairy situation of family gatherings, preferring solitude instead.

On this page you'll find 150 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hairy, such as: abstract, abstruse, agitating, anxious, awkward, bald, balding.

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  • Augean
  • abstract
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gallant

  • Beau Brummell
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  • foolhardy
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  • fop
  • formidable
  • game
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  • glorified
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  • hairy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heartened
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  • heroic
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  • high
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  • honey
  • honorable
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  • imperial
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  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inflated
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  • jay
  • killer
  • kingly
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  • lavish
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  • lofty
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  • lounge lizard
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  • man
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  • natural
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  • old man
  • operatic
  • opulent
  • overblown
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  • overconfident
  • palatial
  • palatine
  • plucky
  • polite
  • pompous
  • popinjay
  • precipitate
  • prepossessing
  • pretty boy
  • princely
  • prodigious
  • proud
  • queenly
  • quixotic
  • rash
  • reassured
  • reckless
  • redoubtable
  • regal
  • remarkable
  • resolute
  • resplendent
  • romance
  • royal
  • see
  • sensational
  • significant other
  • spark
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • splendiferous
  • spunky
  • squeeze
  • stalwart
  • stately
  • steady
  • step out
  • stout
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  • suave
  • sublime
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  • swain
  • sweet
  • sweetheart
  • sweetie
  • sweetie pie
  • swell
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  • terrific
  • thoughtful
  • thoughtless
  • tremendous
  • unafraid
  • undauntable
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  • undeterred
  • undismayed
  • unflinching
  • unswerving
  • uplifting
  • urbane
  • valentine
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venerable
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • woo
  • wooer
  • worthy

idealized

  • abstract
  • abstracted
  • academic
  • adulated
  • aggrandized
  • analytical
  • arcadian
  • as a premise
  • assumed
  • bardic
  • bucolic
  • canonized
  • charming
  • chimerical
  • codified
  • comfortable
  • conceptive
  • conjectural
  • contingent
  • dangerous
  • deified
  • dicey
  • dignified
  • dreaming
  • ennobled
  • enshrined
  • enthroned
  • euphemized
  • experimental
  • figurative
  • florid
  • flowery
  • formalistic
  • formularized
  • general
  • glamorized
  • glamourized
  • glorified
  • grandiloquent
  • hairy
  • halcyon
  • hazardous
  • heavenly
  • heroicized
  • heroized
  • hifalutin
  • high-flown
  • highfalutin
  • hypothetic
  • hypothetical
  • ideal
  • ideational
  • ideological
  • idolized
  • iffy
  • imaginative
  • impractical
  • in the abstract
  • in theory
  • instanced
  • intelle
  • intellectual
  • logical
  • lyric
  • lyrical
  • magnified
  • metaphoric
  • metaphorical
  • metaphysical
  • metric
  • metrical
  • notional
  • on paper
  • optimistic
  • ornate
  • out-of-this-world
  • pastoral
  • peaceful
  • pedantic
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  • picturesque
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  • postulated
  • presumed
  • problematical
  • pure
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  • quixotic
  • radical
  • rhapsodic
  • rhapsodical
  • rhyming
  • rhythmic
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  • riming
  • risky
  • romantic
  • romanticized
  • rustic
  • softened
  • speculative
  • starry-eyed
  • suppositional
  • sweetened
  • symbolic
  • symbolical
  • tentative
  • transcendent
  • transcendental
  • uncertain
  • unearthly
  • unproved
  • unproven
  • unrealistic
  • unspoiled
  • unsubstantiated
  • utopian
  • vague

ideological

  • abstract
  • academic
  • adamant
  • adamantine
  • airy
  • ambitious
  • analytical
  • arcadian
  • as a premise
  • assumed
  • brainy
  • cerebral
  • chimerical
  • clairvoyant
  • codified
  • conceptive
  • conceptual
  • conjectural
  • contingent
  • crusading
  • dangerous
  • deep
  • dicey
  • doctrinaire
  • doctrinal
  • dogmatic
  • dogmatical
  • dream
  • experimental
  • fanciful
  • fantasy
  • formalistic
  • formularized
  • general
  • grandiose
  • hairy
  • hardheaded
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heavy
  • hopeful
  • hypothetic
  • hypothetical
  • ideal
  • idealist
  • idealistic
  • idealized
  • ideational
  • iffy
  • illusory
  • imaginative
  • immaterial
  • implacable
  • impossible
  • impractical
  • in the abstract
  • in theory
  • inflexible
  • inner
  • instanced
  • intelle
  • intellective
  • intellectual
  • lofty
  • logical
  • messianic
  • metaphysical
  • mulish
  • mysterious
  • nonrealistic
  • notional
  • obdurate
  • obstinate
  • on paper
  • opinionated
  • opinionative
  • opinioned
  • otherworldly
  • pedantic
  • perfect
  • pertinacious
  • perverse
  • philosophical
  • phrenic
  • pie-in-the-sky
  • pigheaded
  • pontifical
  • postulated
  • presumed
  • pretentious
  • problematical
  • psychiatric
  • psychic
  • psychical
  • psychological
  • pure
  • quixotic
  • quixotical
  • rational
  • reasoning
  • rigid
  • risky
  • romantic
  • self-opinionated
  • self-willed
  • speculative
  • spiritual
  • starry
  • starry-eyed
  • stubborn
  • subconscious
  • subjective
  • subliminal
  • suppositional
  • telepathic
  • tentative
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • thinking
  • thoughtful
  • transcendent
  • transcendental
  • unbending
  • uncertain
  • unearthly
  • unfeasible
  • unproved
  • unproven
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unsubstantiated
  • unyielding
  • utopian
  • vague
  • visionary
  • zealous

laborious

  • Augean
  • absorbed
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • active
  • alive
  • animated
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • assiduous
  • astir
  • backbreaking
  • bothersome
  • bruising
  • brutal
  • burdensome
  • bustling
  • busy
  • buzzing
  • challenging
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concentrating
  • cruel
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • diligent
  • distressing
  • effortful
  • elusive
  • employed
  • energetic
  • engaged
  • engrossed
  • exacting
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flourishing
  • focused
  • focussed
  • forced
  • formidable
  • functional
  • functioning
  • going
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • hairy
  • happening
  • hard
  • hardworking
  • heavy
  • hellacious
  • herculean
  • hopping
  • humming
  • immersed
  • indefatigable
  • industrious
  • inhuman
  • insoluble
  • intent
  • intricate
  • involved
  • irksome
  • killer
  • killing
  • knee-deep
  • knotty
  • labored
  • lively
  • living
  • moiling
  • murderous
  • occupied
  • onerous
  • opaque
  • operating
  • operational
  • operative
  • operose
  • oppressive
  • painful
  • painstaking
  • persevering
  • persnickety
  • pick-and-shovel
  • ponderous
  • preoccupied
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • recondite
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • rough
  • rough go
  • rugged
  • running
  • sedulous
  • serious
  • severe
  • spiny
  • stern
  • stiff
  • strained
  • strenuous
  • stressful
  • strict
  • stringent
  • stubborn
  • swamped
  • sweaty
  • tall
  • taxing
  • testing
  • thorny
  • thriving
  • ticklish
  • tied-up
  • tight
  • tireless
  • tiresome
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • tough job
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • trying
  • unflagging
  • untiring
  • uphill
  • vexatious
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • wicked
  • working

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