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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

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Example Sentences

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haired -haired

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

Norman, the 50-pound and coarsely haired guest, snoozed within the plastic walls of his igloo-shaped shelter in mid-November.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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