English Synonym Finder

bristly

Definitions

Covered with or having the texture of stiff, prickly hairs.

Easily offended or showing a quick, irritable temper.

Resembling bristles in stiffness or roughness.

Examples

The stray dog had a bristly coat that felt like a coarse brush against my hand.

He rubbed his chin, feeling the bristly stubble of a beard that had not been shaved for days.

Synonyms

prickly spiky thorny rough coarse stiff barbed

Antonyms

smooth soft silky sleek velvety downy bald