English adjective: prickly | |||
| 1. | prickly very irritable | ||
| Samples | Bristly exchanges between the White House and the press. He became prickly and spiteful. Witty and waspish about his colleagues. | ||
| Synonyms | bristly, splenetic, waspish | ||
| Similar | ill-natured | ||
| Antonyms | good-natured | ||
| 2. | prickly having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | ||
| Samples | A horse with a short bristly mane. Bristly shrubs. Burred fruits. Setaceous whiskers. | ||
| Synonyms | barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny | ||
| Similar | armed | ||
| Antonyms | unarmed | ||