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short-haired

short-haired

4 1.3
Having short hair, usually about people or animals
  • adjective
  • /ʃɔrt hɛrd/
translation icon : de pelo corto
  • Two days later, an older, short-haired woman moved in with garbage bags full of clothes still on their hangers.
  • short-haired dog
  • short-haired woman
  • short-haired brunette

He doesn't really get mats, it's astonishing and he honestly doesn't even shed any more than my short haired dogs did.

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Examples

  • On her way back to the B&B, between the pier and the thatched cottage, she met a medium-sized short-haired mongrel.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The short-haired dog raced around the park, chasing after a ball.

  • The driver was a short-haired Navy guy in a black muscle shirt.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • So his mother was a short-haired brunette.

    Scoop (2006)

  • From nowhere, a small short-haired dog, brown and white, had darted out into the highway.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • I grew up with four cats in my life: two Maine Coons and two black short-haired ones.

    Blog text (28)

  • The short-haired young woman in the khaki shorts we knew lived there stopped work and nodded, tight-jawed.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • But I hadn't thought too much about earthquakes as I drove around Marin County looking at houses with Smith Olson, an agile, short-haired real estate woman who looked like an athlete.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • An old man in an oily yellow sweater prayed in the pew ahead of me; his short-haired dog, the same color as the sweater and with the same oily sheen, sat in the aisle on its haunches.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The short-haired woman looked confident as she delivered her speech.

Synonyms

smooth-haired
vsshort-haired
3.2

Having short, flat hair that feels smooth to the touch

is short in hair length without implying flat or smooth texture

Antonyms

long-haired
13 1.9

Having long hair

How Hairy

shaggy
22 3.2
long-haired
13 1.9
short-haired
4 1.3
hairless
26 1.7

Surface Forms

short-haired positive

Morphology

short-haired = short + haired (transparent) = short + haired

A straightforward compound of 'short' + 'haired' meaning 'having short hair', with no semantic shift.

Etymology

Short-haired comes from the two simple words short ('not long') and hair ('hair'), so it literally means having 'short hair' and is used for people or animals whose hair does not grow long.