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Synonyms for hair

noun

  1. Threadlike growth

    locks, tresses, wig, moustache, whiskers, eyebrow, eyelash, thatch, sideburn, down, tress, wool, shock, mane, filament, fluff; see also beard, fur.

  2. One threadlike growth

    whisker, cilium, bristle, vibrissa, striga, villus; see also fiber 1, thread.

  3. Anything suggesting the thickness of a hair

    filament, strand, thread, fiber, a hairbreadth, a narrow margin, whisker, nose, hair trigger, hairspring, splinter, shaving, sliver; see also bit 3.

get in one's hair*
have by the short hairs*

have at one's mercy, victimize, have over a barrel*; see defeat 1.

let one's hair down*

relax, be informal, have fun, let oneself go; see relax 1.

make one's hair stand on end
split hairs
to a hair

precisely, perfectly, right in every detail; see exactly.

See hair in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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