bristly
Meaning of bristly
adjective
- (of hair or foliage) having a stiff and prickly texture.
he washed his bristly black hair
the dunes were dotted with bristly little bushes
Information about bristly
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of bristly
bristly
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- bristly is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bristly synonyms
Meaning prickly:
Meaning barbed:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
Meaning having many spikes or sharp projecting points:
Meaning impale on or pierce with a sharp point:
Meaning (especially of a fabric or garment) having a rough, uncomfortable texture and tending to cause itching or discomfort:
Meaning not easily bent or changed in shape; rigid:
Meaning covered with stubble:
Meaning covered with hair:
Meaning having a frizzy texture or appearance:
Meaning not having recently shaved or been shaved:
Meaning having hair or whiskers growing on the face:
Meaning having a growth of hair on one's cheeks and chin:
Meaning hairy:
Meaning having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level:
Meaning rough or harsh in texture:
Meaning covered with stiff hair or bristles:
bristly antonyms
Meaning having an even and regular surface; free from perceptible projections, lumps, or indentations:
Anagrams of bristly
Words that rhyme with bristly
beastly, downcastly, enthusiastly, fastly, feastly, gastly, ghastly, handfastly, lastly, oversteadfastly, shamefastly, soothfastly, steadfastly, stedfastly, supervastly, unfeastly, unsteadfastly, vastly, confestly, dishonestly, earnestly, honestly, hypermodestly, immodestly, manifestly, modestly, nonmanifestly, nonpriestly, overearnestly, overhonestly, overmodestly, prestly, priestly, pseudomodestly, pseudopriestly, supermodestly, unearnestly, unhonestly, unmodestly, unpriestly, Christly, christly, deboistly, gristly, moistly, papistly, thistly, whistly, wistly, costly
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