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| Main Entry: |
hairiness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shagginess |
| Synonyms: | bristliness, crinosity, downiness, fluffiness, furriness, hirsuteness, hispidity, pilosity, pubescence |
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| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun, noun1, noun2 |
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Adjectives: |
asperous, bearded, befringed, bullate, bushy, calcified, callused, chaetigerous, ciliated, coriaceous, cragged, craggy, crankling, crinite, crinose, crisp, dumose, echinate, feathery, filamentous, fimbriate, fimbriated, fringed, gnarled, hairy, hirsute, hispid, horripilating, irrefrangible, kerasine, knotted, laciniate, lanate, lanuginose, lanuginous, leafy, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, lined, ondoyant, pachydermatous, pappous, pilous, plumigerous, plumose, prickly, rough, rough as a bear, rough as a nutmeg, rugate, rugged, rugose, rugous, salebrous, scabrous, scored, scraggly, scraggy, scrobiculate, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shrunk, sotadic, suberose, tomentous, tufted, uneven, unpolished, unsmooth, unsnod, vermiculated, verrucose, villous, weathered, well, woolly, wrinkled
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| Concept: | Roughness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
roughness; tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity., brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock., plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee., wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff., knot (convolution).
-verbs
be rough; go against the grain., render rough; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
-adjectives
rough, uneven, scabrous, knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly (sharp [more]; arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear., downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate, lanated; lanuginous, lanuginose; tomentose; fluffy.
-adverbs
against the grain.
-phrases
cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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| Antonyms: | smoothness |
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