Synonyms for hairy

Adjective

1. hairy (vs. hairless), hirsute, comate, comose, comal, downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous, floccose, furred, furry, fuzzed, fuzzy, hispid, lanate, woolly, long-haired, pappose, pilous, pilose, pilary, shock-headed, short-haired, tomentose, tomentous, wire-haired, wooly, woolly, canescent, hoary, furlike

usage: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

2. hairy, alarming (vs. unalarming)

usage: hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"