hirsute

/hərˈsut/

What do Santa Claus, Bigfoot, and unicorns have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re completely real, they’re also hirsute: very, very hairy creatures.

All mammals have hair, but the ones that have way more than others, you might call them hirsute. There are hirsute people, like lumberjacks with a jungle of chest hair, bearded ladies at a circus, or just someone with a scraggly hairdo. The word is pronounced "HER-suit," so if you see a woman wearing a furry jacket with matching pants, you could say, "Her suit is hirsute." Just make sure it’s actually a suit and not her real hair.

Definitions of hirsute

1. adjective

   having or covered with hair
   synonyms: haired, hairy

   canescent, hoary

   covered with fine whitish hairs or down

   coarse-furred, coarse-haired

   having coarse hair or fur

   comal, comate, comose

   of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair

   curly-coated, curly-haired

   covered with curly hair

   dark-coated, dark-haired

   covered with dark hair

   downy, puberulent, pubescent, sericeous

   covered with fine soft hairs or down

   floccose

   (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs

   furlike

   resembling fur

   furred, furry

   covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs

   fuzzed, fuzzy

   covering with fine light hairs

   glossy-coated, glossy-furred, glossy-haired

   having glossy hair

   hispid

   (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles

   lanate, woolly

   covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments

   long-haired

   with long hair

   pappose

   (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles

   pilary, pilose, pilous

   covered with hairs especially fine soft ones

   rough-haired

   having hair that feels rough

   shock-headed

   having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair

   short-haired

   with short hair

   silky-haired

   having hair that resembles silk

   silver-haired

   having hair the color of silver

   smooth-haired

   having hair that feels smooth

   snake-haired

   (of monsters) having snakes for hair

   soft-haired

   having soft hair

   stiff-haired

   having stiff hair

   thick-haired

   having thick hair

   tomentose, tomentous

   densely covered with short matted woolly hairs

   velvety-furred, velvety-haired

   having hair that feels like velvet

   wire-haired, wiry-coated

   (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair

   wiry

   of hair that resembles wire in stiffness

   woolly, woolly-haired, wooly, wooly-haired

   covered with dense often matted or curly hairs