Standard Lemma guide

haired

adj · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /hɛəd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /hɛɹd/
  • Australian: /heːd/
  • New-Zealand: /heəd/ without the cheer–chair merger
  • /hiəd/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • Scotland: /heɹd/
  • /hɜː(ɹ)d/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
  • rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)d
  • homophone: heard (fair–fur merger)
  • homophone: herd (fair–fur merger)
  • CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 R D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Bearing some specific type of hair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds

Examples

  • 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145, Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.
  • She was a raven-haired beauty.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

simple past and past participle of hair

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective

Meaning 4

having or covered with hair

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Jacob was a hairy man
  • a hairy caterpillar

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hairy, hirsute

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: karvainen — having hair
  • Spanish: cabelludo — having hair
  • Spanish: cabellado — having hair
  • Spanish: melenudo — having hair
  • Spanish: peludo — having hair
  • Spanish: peloso — having hair
  • Finnish: -tukkainen — having certain type of hair
  • Finnish: karvainen — having certain type of hair
  • Icelandic: -hærður — having certain type of hair
  • Spanish: de cabello — having certain type of hair
  • Spanish: de pelo — having certain type of hair