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frizzy

frizzy

14 3.8
Hair with many small tight curls that is hard to control
  • adjective
  • /ˈfrɪzi/
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  • After being caught in the rain, my hair turned all frizzy and unmanageable.
  • frizzy hair

I like the little frizzy hairs around your little ball there.

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Examples

  • Oh my hair is so frizzy today I give up.

  • Gulda's surly face was the same as usual, her frizzy brown hair standing on end.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • But with the last few days it's been so frizzy and big and so dry as well.

  • Let's try and get these little frizzy front pieces.

  • "I wonder if my hair will get frizzy in the desert."

  • And even with all that like changing and shirts coming off and on, my hair is not very frizzy at all.

  • You can see it's pretty fluffy and frizzy and I have quite a lot of it.

  • So it was a little bit frizzy, but I think, I think I've rescued it.

  • "The sun glows in the frizzy curls of her hair."

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I feel like my hair is getting frizzy, like the static, like I feel the hairs getting staticky.

Synonyms

curly
vsfrizzy
95 1.0

Hair that forms many small round waves

is tighter and more compact in curl pattern than that
nappy
vsfrizzy
  • UK
6 7.8

Hair that has small tight curls

is described as even harder to manage and very tight curled
kinky
vsfrizzy
4 6.8

Having many small tight curls that make hair look thick

is even more unruly and hard to control despite similar curl tightness
crisp
vsfrizzy
3 6.5

Having many small, tight curls

is less neat and more difficult to control in shape
frizzly
vsfrizzy
7.6

Hair with many small tight curls that is hard to comb

is overall more unruly and difficult to control in appearance
frisé
vsfrizzy
9.4

Having small, tight curls on hair or fabric

is more about natural unruliness than a deliberately styled texture
curled
vsfrizzy
1.4

Hair that forms many small round loops or waves

is naturally tighter and often harder to control than styled curls

Antonyms

442 1.0

In a direct line without curves or bends

256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

How Frizzy

frizzy
14 3.8
frizzly
7.6
curly
95 1.0
wavy
16 1.3
straight
442 1.0

Surface Forms

frizzy positive
frizzier comparative
frizziest superlative

Morphology

frizzy = frizz (transparent) = frizz + y

The adjective is a regular adjectival formation from 'frizz' using '-y', meaning 'full of' or 'characterized by' frizz.

Etymology

The word frizzy comes from older words like frizz and frizzle, which mean 'to curl' or 'to make many small curls'. So, frizzy hair is full of small, tight curls or waves that are often hard to control.