black-haired
- adjective
- /blæk hɛrd/
- There was only one picture in it: a black-haired girl with a heart-shaped face and lovely blue eyes.
Examples
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I met a black-haired man who was sharing stories of his travels.
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Darkness is dominant, and so my mother and I are black-haired and dark-eyed.
Fiction book (1996) -
Standing in the market square, we know that it is a little black-haired girl.
Academic text (2007) -
The only one not working was a small, black-haired man at a desk beside the door.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Mommy, go slower," she moaned, too quiet for the tall, black-haired woman beside her to hear.
Fiction book (1990) -
Although her family was Spanish and poor, she was fair-skinned, green-eyed, and black-haired.
Fiction book (2001) -
"When Arna opens the door, in walks a black-haired girl in her early thirties.
Fiction book (1994) -
Annalisa held her breath as a black-haired young man deftly climbed the remaining steps to the special rock.
Fiction book (1997) -
Corran started, then turned and smiled at the black-haired, dark-eyed woman standing in the bedroom doorway.
Fiction book (1998) -
The black-haired girl in the park was wearing a bright yellow dress.
Synonyms
A person with dark hair like black or brown
Very dark black like raven feathers in the sun
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Black-haired is simply made from the common words black ('very dark') and hair ('the hair on your head'), with -ed showing the quality. So, black-haired means 'having black hair'.