hair-shirt

1. 1.

   self-sacrificing or austere

   Synonymshair-shirted

Questions about hair-shirt

What does hair-shirt mean?

hair-shirt means "self-sacrificing or austere".

How many syllables are in hair-shirt?

hair-shirt has 2 syllables: hair--shirt. The stress falls on "hair-".

What is another word for hair-shirt?

Close synonyms include hair-shirted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hair-shirt a common word?

hair-shirt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.