hair-shirted

1. 1.

   self-sacrificing or austere

   Synonymshair-shirt

Questions about hair-shirted

What does hair-shirted mean?

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

How many syllables are in hair-shirted?

hair-shirted has 3 syllables: hair--shir-ted. The stress falls on "hair-".

What is another word for hair-shirted?

Close synonyms include hair-shirt. 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-shirted a common word?

hair-shirted 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.