wire-haired

1. 1.

   (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair

   “a wire-haired terrier”

   Synonymswiry-coated

   Similarhairy

Questions about wire-haired

What does wire-haired mean?

wire-haired means "(especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair".

How many syllables are in wire-haired?

wire-haired has 3 syllables and divides as wire--hai-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wire-haired?

Close synonyms include wiry-coated. 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.