hairline

[hair-lahyn] / ˈhɛərˌlaɪn /

ADJECTIVE

delicate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delicious delightful elegant exquisite fragile gentle graceful mild rare soft subtle tender

WEAK

aerial balmy breakable choice delectable ethereal faint filmy fine fine-grained finespun flimsy fracturable frail frangible gauzy gossamery muted nice pale pastel recherché select shatterable shattery slight subdued superior

Antonyms

STRONGEST

callous crude firm hard harsh healthy horrible loud ordinary rough strong tough ugly unpleasant violent

WEAK

coarse healthful heavy imprecise indelicate indiscriminating inelegant insensitive robust uncareful uncritical unscrupulous

ADJECTIVE

fine

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delicate intelligent obscure pure refined sharp subtle

STRONG

acute clear hairsplitting keen minute nice petty quick sensitive sterling trifling

WEAK

abstruse critical cryptic distinct enigmatic esoteric fastidious fine-spun precise recondite strict tasteful tenuous unadulterated unpolluted

Antonyms

STRONGEST

forthright indefinite

STRONG

blunt dull imprecise

WEAK

coarse crude undiscriminating unrefined

ADJECTIVE

subtle

Synonyms

STRONGEST

exquisite faint indirect ingenious profound slight sophisticated understated

WEAK

attenuate attenuated deep discriminating ethereal fine finespun hairsplitting illusive implied inconspicuous indistinct inferred insinuated mental penetrating refined suggestive tenuous thin

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorant stupid

WEAK

forthright hard harsh honest noisy open unsubtle

Example Sentences

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My hair woes started in high school, when I would scrape my curls into a bun and lament how thin my hairline looked.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

Joseph’s look contrasts with the somewhat scruffy beard and receding hairline of the donor kneeling at the right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Agar could have been stumped on six off Swann, but got the benefit of a hairline decision.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

You’re more than allowed to believe him abominable, and maybe do some witchcraft so his hairline starts receding at an unprecedented rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

His hairline had receded slightly, and he looked thinner than I remembered him.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

hairline

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