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Pronunciation:
[ bɹˈɪstli], [ bɹˈɪstli], [ b_ɹ_ˈɪ_s_t_l_i]
Related words: icky hair, dry hair, frizzy hair, tangled hair, split ends, oily hair, dandruff, hair loss
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Similar words for bristly:
- all (adjective)
- bearded (adjective)
- bushy (adjective)
- furry (adjective)
- hairy (adjective)
- irascible (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- prickly (adjective)
- rough (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- thorny (adjective)
- wiry (adjective)
- armed (noun)
- barbed (noun)
- barbellate (noun)
- briary (noun)
- bristled (noun)
- bristly (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Bristly:
adj.
• all (adjective) • bearded (adjective) • bushy (adjective) • furry (adjective) • hairy (adjective) • irascible (adjective)- ogrer,
- most bearish,
- quick tempered,
- ogrest,
- short tempered,
- up tight,
- hot tempered,
- quicktempered,
- thinskinned,
- shorttempered,
- up-tight,
- thin skinned,
- more bearish,
- huffy.
- wiry,
- ropier,
- thorny,
- Pricky,
- spikiest,
- hairy,
- hottempered,
- pilous,
- rough,
- bearish,
- bearded,
- brambly,
- Echinated,
- arrowlike,
- spiky,
- bushy,
- prickly,
- spikier,
- briery,
- spinous,
- ropy,
- irascible,
- Thistly.
- jagged,
- coarse,
- unlevel,
- nodular,
- Crossgrained,
- scratchy,
- ridged,
- scraggy,
- Asperous,
- Knurled,
- cross-grained,
- chapped,
- rumpled,
- ragged,
- gnarled,
- not smooth,
- ruffled,
- wrinkly,
- scraggiest,
- rugged,
- sinewy,
- Scuffed.
- pointed,
- cutting,
- spear-like,
- sharp,
- razor-edged,
- spiked,
- pointy,
- sagittal,
- keen,
- acute,
- needle-like,
- needle-point.
n.
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- bald.
- ill-natured,
- burred,
- spiny,
- burry.
- body.
Other synonyms:
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- frizz,
- flyaway,
- matted,
- coiffured,
- balding,
- coiffed,
- bouffant,
- tousled,
- split ends,
- bad hair day,
- unkempt,
- scraggly,
- frizzy,
- lank,
- swept-back,
- shoulder-length,
- close-cropped.
-
•
- curl.
-
•
- straight.
- hold out,
- aculeated,
- receipts,
- exhilarating,
- garbled,
- matt,
- near,
- luminousness,
- live,
- sloshed,
- intemperately,
- napkin,
- petroleum,
- busted,
- penetrating,
- clamant,
- sting,
- sound,
- disputative,
- nettled,
- chafed,
- scaly,
- caespitose,
- acetify,
- gyre,
- roughshod,
- labored,
- liberate,
- bad-tempered,
- threatening,
- interbreed,
- foxy,
- ill-humored,
- nubby,
- nodulated,
- effervescing,
- press clipping,
- crossbreeding,
- untamed,
- granulose,
- addled,
- lumbering,
- big,
- temporary,
- punk,
- dodgy,
- crisp,
- carving,
- odd,
- hybrid,
- fixed,
- publish,
- straightaway,
- pipe up,
- wiped out,
- martial,
- let loose,
- inconvenience,
- cespitose,
- foil,
- forficate,
- sluttish,
- cut across,
- savage,
- clipping,
- thinly,
- personify,
- unbendable,
- battleful,
- compact,
- sulfurous,
- lock,
- ciliated,
- highly strung,
- yobbo,
- acrobatic,
- slack,
- dead body,
- dandy,
- fractiously,
- pettishly,
- state of nature,
- disturbed,
- recalcitrant,
- astute,
- unwarranted,
- attacking,
- pestered,
- curl up,
- yobo,
- hybridizing,
- film editing,
- feathered,
- umbrageous,
- mesomorphic,
- queer,
- fire,
- altogether,
- crinkled,
- humiliated,
- harassed,
- baseless,
- quick,
- unleash,
- bitingly,
- acerbic,
- overweening,
- high-strung,
- sodding,
- chummy,
- acidity,
- notched,
- rank,
- acidify,
- flimsy,
- fuddled,
- large-grained,
- firmly,
- glum,
- dour,
- good,
- douse,
- nerve-racking,
- spotty,
- perch,
- fell,
- bald-pated,
- sparse,
- heavyset,
- second-rate,
- complex,
- denuded,
- sensitive,
- pilary,
- bleak,
- powerful,
- at variance,
- spicy,
- refractory,
- ashen,
- slap-up,
- pharyngeal consonant,
- graceless,
- on the loose,
- soundbox,
- problematic,
- cacophonic,
- harried,
- full phase of the moon,
- grave,
- flagrant,
- guess,
- crape,
- twinkle,
- uncivilised,
- uncivilized,
- mat,
- mark,
- vitriolic,
- slick,
- get off,
- chondritic,
- irritating,
- wax,
- get across,
- unfaltering,
- reddened,
- skimpy,
- cloakmaker,
- strained,
- stung,
- trunk,
- extend,
- foggy,
- knobbed,
- satiny,
- acid,
- concentrated,
- kink,
- waste,
- toilsome,
- illume,
- lax,
- gravid,
- maddened,
- list,
- litigious,
- get down,
- pissed off,
- hooligan,
- arduous,
- edgy,
- grievous,
- complete,
- backbreaking,
- incisive,
- press cutting,
- intemperate,
- ill-humoured,
- fatheaded,
- hawkish,
- knavish,
- hardly,
- ringlet,
- wrothful,
- barbarous,
- overweight,
- bestubbled,
- fantastic,
- churning,
- fazed,
- stimulant,
- ague,
- hybridisation,
- smashing,
- precipitant,
- wide,
- fragile,
- disobedient,
- neat,
- bare-ass,
- unhinged,
- gravelly,
- acute accent,
- airing,
- punishing,
- unclean,
- epicurean,
- nubbly,
- hoodlum,
- ciliophoran,
- muddled,
- humbled,
- 144,
- snappy,
- thick-skulled,
- acuate,
- true,
- robustious,
- fanatic,
- grueling,
- gymnastic,
- antsy,
- overhasty,
- lissom,
- whiney,
- combustion,
- bifurcate,
- farinaceous,
- luminance,
- aerodynamic,
- precipitate,
- drug-addicted,
- glumly,
- burly,
- lissome,
- open,
- blurry,
- baffle,
- downlike,
- topknotted,
- cover,
- strong-growing,
- blatant,
- browned off,
- stewing,
- span,
- tart,
- excited,
- disoblige,
- unbent,
- delirious,
- middling,
- anesthetize,
- directly,
- glowering,
- crocked,
- thinning,
- spark,
- incommode,
- burnish,
- grumpily,
- coil,
- spumy,
- slant,
- snarly,
- weather-beaten,
- shriveled,
- bang-up,
- short,
- dependent,
- pesky,
- roily,
- shrivelled,
- tend,
- in the raw,
- anaesthetize,
- full moon,
- slenderize,
- contrarious,
- insane,
- seamed,
- stabbing,
- corpse,
- severe,
- tender,
- earthy,
- head-in-the-clouds,
- broken in,
- combatant,
- overzealous,
- crossing,
- unmown,
- hood,
- laciniate,
- unconnected,
- heterosexual,
- peaky,
- consecutive,
- natural,
- full-of-the-moon,
- featherlike,
- lithesome,
- blanched,
- woolly-headed,
- staring,
- gruelling,
- leaning,
- tip,
- abstemious,
- comal,
- unhorse,
- flossy,
- ill-tempered,
- brainsick,
- stretch out,
- glossary,
- uncouth,
- muzzy,
- bully,
- double-dyed,
- crotchety,
- wooden-headed,
- flow,
- hybridization,
- hotheaded,
- rancid,
- napped,
- bad,
- alight,
- denudate,
- wily,
- polish,
- revenue,
- crusty,
- fricative,
- grouchily,
- crazy,
- atypical,
- crank,
- slurred,
- frothy,
- knobbly,
- hard-boiled,
- underweight,
- false,
- light source,
- teasing,
- attrition,
- rampantly,
- release,
- thwart,
- estimate,
- roughly,
- jolting,
- branched,
- spirant,
- curmudgeonly,
- fighter,
- acerb,
- unshakable,
- torso,
- spry,
- jolty,
- wooly-minded,
- substance,
- raging,
- lancinating,
- abrasive material,
- blind drunk,
- nippy,
- inclination,
- clayey,
- wakeful,
- common,
- morose,
- sonorous,
- elusive,
- approximative,
- peckish,
- toothed,
- unironed,
- delicate,
- riotous,
- tripping,
- frizzle,
- naked as a jaybird,
- tricksy,
- streamlined,
- heavily,
- loaded,
- work,
- edged,
- weatherworn,
- cloggy,
- crisscross,
- rough-textured,
- run,
- bleary,
- strung-out,
- hefty,
- roll,
- unkeyed,
- dourly,
- luxurious,
- substandard,
- gritty,
- ferocious,
- bilk,
- unadulterated,
- brutal,
- thwartwise,
- impenetrable,
- cut through,
- mealy,
- brushed,
- illumination,
- wooly-haired,
- flat,
- transverse,
- with child,
- irritation,
- not bad,
- roughneck,
- tweedy,
- besotted,
- skinny,
- steady,
- consistency,
- stark,
- difficult,
- fanatical,
- abradant,
- bubbly,
- anesthetise,
- plaguy,
- soused,
- arrant,
- silklike,
- newspaper clipping,
- lithe,
- illogical,
- close together,
- megascopic,
- illumine,
- needlelike,
- unbowed,
- kink up,
- lite,
- grate,
- confused,
- befuddled,
- limber up,
- bouldered,
- sore,
- white,
- shrewd,
- nervy,
- unloose,
- tendinous,
- burning at the stake,
- despitefully,
- unordered,
- tilt,
- acutely,
- scant,
- dismount,
- boneheaded,
- sturdy,
- flighty,
- trouble,
- hooklike,
- monster,
- light up,
- inner light,
- consistence,
- set,
- issue,
- unclouded,
- cunning,
- easy,
- lightness,
- weak,
- convoluted,
- ugly,
- lepidote,
- smashed,
- put under,
- godforsaken,
- matte,
- sharply,
- unaccented,
- clay,
- ruffianly,
- mired,
- acidulate,
- discriminating,
- nerve-wracking,
- potent,
- piercing,
- sick,
- unchewable,
- plaguey,
- tartness,
- querulously,
- swell,
- clamorous,
- public exposure,
- yob,
- cockeyed,
- unorthodox,
- rambunctious,
- perfect,
- woolly-haired,
- fidgety,
- battler,
- full-length,
- vexing,
- escaped,
- cracked,
- wakeless,
- average,
- light-colored,
- scrawny,
- slip,
- untrimmed,
- dotty,
- frizzly,
- bring out,
- scurfy,
- slippery,
- pure,
- stiffly,
- flinty,
- light within,
- spindly,
- acrimonious,
- upset,
- frustrate,
- come close,
- withered,
- chunky,
- maverick,
- impoverished,
- inharmonic,
- stressful,
- restive,
- abrupt,
- unresolved,
- guerrilla,
- semblance,
- penetrative,
- straightforward,
- catchy,
- risky,
- incline,
- sourness,
- low,
- inadequate,
- luminosity,
- pixilated,
- headlong,
- kinky,
- plumy,
- color,
- glossiness,
- slim down,
- cadaver,
- guerilla,
- primitive,
- vexation,
- rock oil,
- byzantine,
- wavy-grained,
- fretful,
- toughie,
- lowering,
- tippy,
- faint,
- at large,
- moody,
- plucky,
- wanton,
- to the full,
- traverse,
- lightsome,
- firm,
- slopped,
- biramous,
- replete,
- black-and-blue,
- liberal,
- abrasion,
- groovy,
- curlicue,
- unsanded,
- fossil oil,
- heterosexual person,
- wave,
- sweep,
- beefy,
- free,
- bloody-minded,
- incense,
- precipitous,
- rocklike,
- unfounded,
- violent,
- caustic,
- roiling,
- frowzled,
- sparkle,
- turned,
- extravagant,
- buckram,
- ciliary,
- deficient,
- peeled,
- bitterly,
- shaggy-coated,
- disharmonious,
- large,
- angle,
- shaped,
- midst,
- laborious,
- illuminate,
- boney,
- fair,
- fully,
- subscript,
- curly-grained,
- spunky,
- tempestuous,
- broad,
- rubric,
- turbulent,
- activist,
- pestiferous,
- strict,
- plastered,
- spread,
- lightly,
- sly,
- rough-cut,
- gauche,
- rippled,
- hazardous,
- frothing,
- warring,
- daunted,
- wavelike,
- jittery,
- visible light,
- ablaze,
- red-hot,
- hybridise,
- vexatious,
- crushed,
- thin out,
- raving mad,
- glaring,
- detrition,
- slubbed,
- slender,
- dependant,
- oil,
- egregious,
- promiscuous,
- rumbustious,
- slight,
- bosky,
- clean,
- uncompromising,
- direct,
- track,
- crested,
- natural state,
- comment,
- dense,
- carinate,
- sybaritic,
- ebullient,
- utter,
- high-spirited,
- ropey,
- melt off,
- competitive,
- off,
- fleshy,
- steamed,
- unwavering,
- prongy,
- brawny,
- marginal,
- vociferous,
- mustached,
- cilial,
- crude oil,
- simmering,
- miffed,
- tined,
- wilderness,
- buirdly,
- rowdy,
- fast-growing,
- thorough,
- full-strength,
- erose,
- severely,
- lament,
- profound,
- puberulent,
- uncoiled,
- annoyance,
- sulphurous,
- brightness,
- cracking,
- rough out,
- transversal,
- sullen,
- hilly,
- blotto,
- shriek,
- guttural consonant,
- knotted,
- discommode,
- diffraction grating,
- low-cal,
- toughened,
- visible radiation,
- pettish,
- thickly,
- molded,
- hard-bitten,
- organic structure,
- cracker-barrel,
- sharp-worded,
- loggerheaded,
- wizen,
- goon,
- whiny,
- hempen,
- obdurate,
- relax,
- problematical,
- keeled,
- croaky,
- techy,
- agonistical,
- pharyngeal,
- pipe,
- buddy-buddy,
- voluptuary,
- rough in,
- bubbling,
- corking,
- fussy,
- ungovernable,
- gnarly,
- idle,
- off-key,
- particulate matter,
- weedy,
- peachy,
- indocile,
- frosty,
- in the altogether,
- burn,
- tortuous,
- shrunken,
- whorl,
- mismatched,
- bloodless,
- lush,
- blunt,
- stretch forth,
- emotional,
- nimble,
- strong-armer,
- expectant,
- interbreeding,
- baffling,
- frilled,
- lancinate,
- brightness level,
- starchy,
- sibilant,
- deep,
- steadfast,
- anaesthetise,
- straight person,
- vulgar,
- clear,
- swooning,
- fuzzed,
- groundless,
- informal,
- annotate,
- blockheaded,
- fall,
- lighting,
- ignitor,
- barbarian,
- fork-like,
- frantic,
- tight,
- hazy,
- total,
- raspy,
- leprose,
- elaborate,
- scrapper,
- demented,
- light-headed,
- enceinte,
- birthday suit,
- unsmooth,
- granitelike,
- galling,
- unkept,
- overstrung,
- shaggy-haired,
- leaden,
- unshaved,
- tetchy,
- fierce,
- voiceless,
- ignite,
- excitable,
- new,
- wide-cut,
- tenuous,
- roughened,
- crown of thorns,
- second,
- fiend,
- colour,
- flint,
- igniter,
- sinuous,
- intersect,
- thickset,
- prick,
- curve,
- strong,
- voluptuous,
- be given,
- devil,
- unvoiced,
- thug,
- scotch,
- bony,
- sozzled,
- intense,
- braky,
- fire up,
- spoil,
- bald-headed,
- carinated,
- unrestrained,
- mountainous,
- diaper,
- pissed,
- stocky,
- cutting off,
- entire,
- gauge,
- hybridize,
- ruffian,
- guileful,
- dilute,
- loop,
- laboured,
- war-ridden,
- rasp,
- provoked,
- lighter,
- barefaced,
- boisterous,
- blurred,
- crossbreed,
- knifelike,
- great,
- silken,
- crying,
- pestering,
- unpredictable,
- bare,
- street fighter,
- saturnine,
- scatterbrained,
- lightheaded,
- exquisite,
- continuant,
- judge,
- soaked,
- vicious,
- aroused,
- bouldery,
- sericeous,
- foamy,
- acanthous,
- unloosen,
- rude,
- insurgent,
- ponderous,
- reduce,
- crimp,
- barbaric,
- thready,
- unbalanced,
- aquiline,
- consummate,
- thoroughgoing,
- scattered,
- pass over,
- unsheared,
- knockout,
- bare-assed,
- square,
- blistering,
- weighty,
- demon,
- pie-eyed,
- squiffy,
- smother,
- weighed down,
- harebrained,
- coarse-textured,
- snarled,
- naked,
- dissemination,
- retire,
- porcine,
- discrepant,
- disconnected,
- disjointed,
- unaffixed,
- uncontrollable,
- piercingly,
- nifty,
- wavy,
- excessive,
- ferment,
- bitterness,
- remains,
- exasperate,
- turn,
- everlasting,
- gaga,
- dark,
- get over,
- electrocution,
- cut,
- noduled,
- scroll,
- crafty,
- slim,
- jumpy,
- wet,
- surd,
- in the buff,
- loosen,
- forked,
- ciliated protozoan,
- puffy,
- frilly,
- old,
- jerky,
- thickheaded,
- granitic,
- stark naked,
- bother,
- virulent,
- draw in,
- calorie-free.
- gross,
- scabrous,
- Setose,
- strident,
- husky,
- Spiculate,
- unfinished,
- Setous,
- raw,
- gruff,
- aculeate,
- shaggy,
- fretfully,
- feathery,
- Echinate,
- harsh,
- angrily,
- trichoid,
- mordacious,
- morosely,
- hirsute,
- standing on end,
- lanose,
- spitefully,
- biting,
- comose,
- Strigillose,
- comate,
- testily,
- stubby,
- shagged,
- stinging,
- Waspishly,
- inharmonious,
- unbending,
- rasping,
- shrill,
- hispid,
- Strigose,
- raucous,
- approximate,
- dissonant,
- Glochidiate,
- cruel,
- flocculent,
- Strigous,
- studded,
- hoarse,
- aciculate,
- fringy,
- grinding,
- guttural,
- clashing,
- Aculeolate,
- Lanuginous,
- pungent,
- sour,
- crude,
- maliciously,
- woolly,
- Acrimoniously,
- moodily,
- brushy,
- downy,
- irritably,
- splenic,
- unrefined,
- discordant,
- grating,
- Aristate,
- petulantly,
- acrid,
- chaetophorous,
- Muricate,
- setal,
- Splenetically,
- bitter,
- ciliate,
- crossly,
- Strigate,
- unharmonious,
- peevishly,
- crabbily,
- setarious,
- Crinite,
- pricking,
- Setiferous,
- acanthoid,
- Lanuginose,
- fluffy,
- silky,
- tough,
- leafy,
- Setaceous,
- stiff,
- atonal,
- rough-hewn,
- cacophonous,
- inflexible,
- Cirrose,
- cottony,
- Acanaceous,
- Bristling,
- touchily,
- sullenly.
How to use "Bristly" in context?
Bristly refers to having a rough or scaly surface. Bristles are long hairs that are raised from the surface of an animal or object. Bristles are used for defence or to collect rain or snow.
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