bristly – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
bristly
adj.
stubbly; irritable; having bristles
bristly
Adjective
1. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
(synonym) prickly, splenetic, waspish
(similar) ill-natured
2. 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"
(synonym) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
(similar) armed
bristly
Przym.
pokryty szczeciną
Bristly
(a.)
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
bristly
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
