different between haired vs hared

English

Etymology

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair +? -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Adjective

haired (comparative more haired, superlative most haired)

1. Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
   • 1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:

     It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.
2. (in combination) Bearing some specific type of hair.
   • 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Chapter 28, p. 196, [3]

     At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.

   • 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145,

     Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.

   • 1958, R. K. Narayan, The Guide, Penguin, 1988, Chapter Four, p. 45,

     A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.

   • 1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, The African Image, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Chapter 5, p. 69, [5]

     Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.

   • 1997, Ted Hughes, "Myrrha" in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, p. 116, lines 110-113,

     Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.

Hyponyms

Translations

Verb

haired

1. simple past tense and past participle of hair

Anagrams

• Haider, Hardie, Haredi, dehair

English

Verb

hared

1. simple past tense and past participle of hare

Anagrams

• -hedra, Daher, Heard, Herda, Rhade, heard