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What is "bristly" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does bristly mean in English? Meaning of bristly definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "bristly" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "bristly": very irritable

Adjective

  • Meaning: very irritable
  • Example: bristly exchanges between the White House and the press he became prickly and spiteful witty and waspish about his colleagues
  • Synonyms: bristly prickly splenetic waspish
  • Similar: ill-natured

    • Meaning of "bristly": having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  • Example: a horse with a short bristly mane bristly shrubs burred fruits setaceous whiskers
  • Synonyms: barbed barbellate briary briery bristled bristly burred burry prickly setaceous setose spiny thorny
  • Similar: armed
  • Adjective: Covered with bristles.Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.

    • Synonyms:

    echinate, spiny, aristate, barbellate, chaetophorous, hispid, setaceous, setal, setarious, setiferous, setose,

    Antonyms:

    clean-shaven, smooth,

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