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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

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bristly

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

bris=tly

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective bristly has 2 senses

bristly(s = adj.all) prickly, splenetic, waspish - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
bristly(s = adj.all) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Derived forms noun bristle₁, noun bristliness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bristly, a.

Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. [1913 Webster]

"The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bristly, adj. (bristlier, bristliest) full of bristles; rough, prickly.

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THESAURUS

bristly

acanaceous, aculeolate, barbellate, brambly, briery, bristled, bristling, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, muricate, pilose, pricking, prickly, pricky, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, stinging, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, thistly, thorny, unshorn, woolly