fair-haired
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.68 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Given special treatment as a favorite.
Example Sentences
- "Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, / Now, while the sun rests on the mountains, light / Thy bright torch of love!"
- "Tom the woodcutter was even taller, broader and fairer-haired than John the woodcutter, though there wasn’t all that much between them in the gormlessness stakes."
- "Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal."
Inflected Forms
more fair-haired (comparative)
fairer-haired (comparative)
most fair-haired (superlative)
fairest-haired (superlative)
fairhaired (alternative)