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    haired
    adjective
    having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).
  • -haired
    -haired
    adjective
    having hair as specified

haired

American  
[haird] / hɛərd /

adjective

  1. having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).

    dark-haired; long-haired.

  2. New England (chiefly Maine). angry, annoyed, or upset (often followed byup ).

    Don't get haired up over his insults.


-haired British  

adjective

  1. having hair as specified

    long-haired

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of haired

1350–1400; Middle English hered; see hair, -ed 3

Example Sentences

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The commander - who is white haired and softly spoken - belongs to a small dissident group called Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

You may snigger that the fluffy haired and sequin-loving singer-songwriter is a cheesy anti-poet, fixating on such mortal lines as “No one heard at all, not even the chair.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Sheriff’s detectives and FBI agents served a search warrant at the Buzzard home where a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk includes a picture of the curly haired girl.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

Serra, 30 and shaggy haired, had shown his first splash piece a year earlier, in a group show at the Castelli Warehouse, a storage space on West 108th Street.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano and beside her stood a tall, red haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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