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bristly

/'br/i/sl/i/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

  1. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

    adjective

    Source: webster1913

adjective satellite

  1. very irritable

    adj.all

    Examples
    Bristly exchanges between the White House and the press.
    Synonyms prickly splenetic waspish

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

    adj.all

    Examples
    A horse with a short bristly mane.
    Bristly shrubs.
    Synonyms barbed barbellate briary briery bristled burred burry prickly setaceous setose spiny thorny

    Source: WordNet 3.0

Nearby words

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