hirsute
English
Etymology
From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
hirsute (comparative more hirsute, superlative most hirsute)
- Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 3, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 2, page 674:
- 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.
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- 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Jew Old-clothes Men”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume II (The London Street-folk. Book the Second.), London: [Griffin, Bohn, and Company], →OCLC, page 129, column 2:
- At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.
- 2008, Desmond Morris, chapter 2, in The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, London: Vintage, page 30:
- Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]
Usage notes
- Considerably more formal than everyday hairy.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
hairy
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
hirsute (plural hirsutes)
Further reading
- “hirsute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) hīrsūte
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