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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.

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-haired British  

adjective

1. having hair as specified

   long-haired

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Etymology

Origin of haired

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

Example Sentences

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There is Kyle Troup, the ginger haired “Pro with the Fro” — “I guess I’m the Bob Ross of bowling,” he says, though you may also think of Richard Simmons — clownish, with colorful dress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

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

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

He was looking at her like she’d stepped out of the pages of his comics, a living, breathing soul mate to Aditya, that wild, curly haired girl come to life.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 47, grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe.

From Time Magazine Archive