538 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹˈɪkli], [ pɹˈɪkli], [ p_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_l_i]

Similar words for prickly:

• bushy (adjective)
• cantankerous (adjective)
• crabby (adjective)
• crabby/crabbed (adjective)
• crusty (adjective)
• echinate (adjective)
• irritable (adjective)
• irritable, bad-tempered (adjective)
• knifelike (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• sharp (adjective)
• thorny (adjective)
• thorny or difficult (adjective)
• armed (noun)
• ill-natured (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• bloom
• protective
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Prickly:

• adj.

  • bushy (adjective)
  • more bristling,
  • most rumpled,
  • dis ordered,
  • most bristling,
  • more rumpled,
  • dis-ordered.
  • cantankerous (adjective)
  • dis agreeable,
  • huffy,
  • more bearish,
  • ill humored,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more illhumored,
  • most bearish,
  • morose,
  • more vinegarish,
  • most ill-humored,
  • illhumored,
  • snappish,
  • more ill humored,
  • most vinegary,
  • ill natured,
  • bad tempered,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most vinegarish,
  • more vinegary,
  • illnatured,
  • most illhumored,
  • most ill humored,
  • obstinate,
  • ill-humored,
  • badtempered.
  • crabby (adjective)
  • most mumpish,
  • more mumpish,
  • chuffiest,
  • chuffier.
  • crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • most splenetic,
  • nastytempered,
  • illtempered,
  • more splenetic,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • gloomy,
  • un-sociable,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • most crabbed,
  • more difficult,
  • most nastytempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • ill tempered,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • un sociable.
  • crusty (adjective)
  • shorttempered,
  • short tempered,
  • most snarling,
  • more snarling.
  • echinate (adjective)
  • more echinated,
  • most echinated.
  • irritable (adjective)
  • cranky,
  • acerbic,
  • oversensitive,
  • grumbling,
  • petty,
  • petulant,
  • touchy,
  • acrimonious,
  • spiteful,
  • crabby,
  • irritable,
  • bitter,
  • peevish,
  • easily offended,
  • irascible,
  • churlish,
  • cross,
  • out of humor,
  • tart,
  • caustic,
  • bitchy,
  • Fretting,
  • bellicose,
  • acid,
  • crabbed.
  • irritable, bad-tempered (adjective)
  • edgy,
  • grumpy,
  • fretful.
  • knifelike (adjective)
  • knifelike,
  • Gnawing.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • thorny,
  • cantankerous,
  • Echinate,
  • nasty-tempered,
  • Pricky,
  • crusty,
  • Mumpish,
  • Thistly,
  • Echinated,
  • vinegary,
  • spinous,
  • vinegarish,
  • Chuffy,
  • bushy,
  • arrowlike,
  • bearish.
  • sharp (adjective)
  • razor-edged,
  • keen-edged,
  • horned,
  • sagittal,
  • acute,
  • Unblunted,
  • spear-like,
  • splintery,
  • sharp-edged,
  • spikier,
  • pronged,
  • Acuminous,
  • needlelike,
  • Needle-pointed,
  • acuate,
  • knife-edged,
  • tined,
  • needle-like,
  • spikiest,
  • apical,
  • needle-point,
  • cutting,
  • jagged,
  • ground fine.
  • thorny (adjective)
  • more spinous,
  • un-pleasant,
  • more harassing,
  • most arrowlike,
  • up-setting,
  • most spinous,
  • un pleasant,
  • Harassing,
  • more arrowlike,
  • most harassing,
  • up setting.
  • thorny or difficult (adjective)
  • stimulating,
  • trying,
  • tricky.

• n.

  •
  • coarse,
  • uneven,
  • irregular.
  •
  • contentious,
  • adverse,
  • disruptive,
  • troublesome,
  • invidious,
  • embarrassing,
  • fraught,
  • bad.
  •
  • grass,
  • gold-plated,
  • armor-plated,
  • gilded,
  • gilt,
  • frothy,
  • furry,
  • gift-wrapped,
  • foamy,
  • Cobbled.
  • armed (noun)
  • armed.
  • ill-natured (noun)
  • ill-natured.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • distance,
  • splenetic,
  • brutal,
  • bristled,
  • sharply,
  • out,
  • spiked,
  • brambly,
  • reserved,
  • asocial,
  • cold-eyed,
  • forbidding,
  • icy,
  • spiky,
  • barbellate,
  • unfriendly,
  • withdrawal,
  • pointed,
  • coolly,
  • time,
  • mixer,
  • burred,
  • distant,
  • cold,
  • razor-sharp,
  • sharp,
  • clinical,
  • briary,
  • coldly,
  • point,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • barbed,
  • spike,
  • waspish,
  • distantly,
  • antagonism,
  • pointy,
  • coolness,
  • wintry,
  • sour,
  • abrasive,
  • dagger,
  • austere,
  • antisocial,
  • glacial,
  • frigid,
  • inhospitable,
  • gruff,
  • spiny,
  • Setose,
  • antagonistic,
  • frostily,
  • unwelcoming,
  • saturnine,
  • cool,
  • chilly,
  • unapproachable,
  • impersonal,
  • blunt,
  • aloof,
  • friend,
  • funny,
  • remote,
  • surly,
  • unsociable,
  • keen,
  • defriend,
  • hone,
  • standoffish,
  • cold fish,
  • frosty,
  • unsmiling,
  • sharpen,
  • sullen,
  • estranged,
  • briery,
  • bristly,
  • reserve,
  • self-contained,
  • belligerent,
  • hostile,
  • abrupt,
  • Setaceous,
  • withdraw,
  • dour,
  • burry,
  • offish,
  • whet,
  • offhand,
  • estrange.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • granular,
  • crinkly,
  • lumpy,
  • bumpy,
  • leathery,
  • grooved,
  • rugged,
  • knobbly,
  • coarsely,
  • chunky,
  • rustic,
  • textured,
  • grainy,
  • rough-hewn,
  • knobby,
  • knotted,
  • wrinkled,
  • ragged.
  •
  • fine,
  • ticklish,
  • nettlesome.
  •
  • fractious,
  • hot-tempered,
  • bad-tempered,
  • moody,
  • temperamental.
  • bloom
  • poppy.
  • protective
  • defensive.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • intelligent,
  • unrefined,
  • tense,
  • restive,
  • sabre,
  • Spicular,
  • pain,
  • Malignly,
  • refined,
  • allergic,
  • splenic,
  • hard,
  • broadsword,
  • Denticulated,
  • scabrous,
  • Asperous,
  • virulently,
  • snarky,
  • tender,
  • crude,
  • responsive,
  • inflammable,
  • aculeated,
  • unsmooth,
  • Odontoid,
  • Cornute,
  • piquant,
  • anxious,
  • cutlass,
  • choleric,
  • pilose,
  • complex,
  • goosy,
  • prickling,
  • catchy,
  • rapier,
  • Snaggy,
  • cragged,
  • Cornuted,
  • eruptive,
  • Fimbriated,
  • Muricated,
  • intense,
  • short-tempered,
  • sagittate,
  • Acanaceous,
  • volcanic,
  • impatient,
  • aciculate,
  • explosive,
  • hairy,
  • starlike,
  • vane,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • intricate,
  • biting,
  • malevolently,
  • shagged,
  • bearded,
  • despitefully,
  • bothersome,
  • Mucronate,
  • mark,
  • stain,
  • painful,
  • peaked,
  • well-wooded,
  • uptight,
  • dyspeptic,
  • stigma,
  • tufted,
  • unpolished,
  • testy,
  • Spurred,
  • ill-humoured,
  • Crinite,
  • conical,
  • lienal,
  • laciniate,
  • lancinating,
  • delicate,
  • restless,
  • irritating,
  • filamentous,
  • Aciform,
  • rugose,
  • hispid,
  • spiculose,
  • mordacious,
  • arborescent,
  • nasty,
  • tricksy,
  • pyramidal,
  • tangled,
  • pricking,
  • on edge,
  • thin-skinned,
  • ill at ease,
  • complicated,
  • crawling,
  • tough,
  • apprehensive,
  • pettish,
  • sullenly,
  • annoying,
  • morosely,
  • roughhewn,
  • awkward,
  • Acrimoniously,
  • Crinose,
  • skittish,
  • pungent,
  • ciliated,
  • hyperesthetic,
  • quarrelsome,
  • unfinished,
  • sagittiform,
  • Mucronated,
  • grouchy,
  • snappy,
  • Waspishly,
  • tapering,
  • Snippety,
  • edge,
  • involved,
  • Stelliform,
  • Setiferous,
  • venomously,
  • stabbing,
  • trichoid,
  • craggy,
  • spitefully,
  • fidgety,
  • miffy,
  • harsh,
  • scraggy,
  • brand,
  • perverse,
  • stuffy,
  • empathic,
  • quick-tempered,
  • crossly,
  • problematic,
  • mettlesome,
  • Perturbable,
  • crotchety,
  • fiery,
  • tingling,
  • feathery,
  • incisive,
  • Agitable,
  • angrily,
  • poisonously,
  • Spiculate,
  • maliciously,
  • tetchy,
  • Digitated,
  • snippy,
  • aculeate,
  • Plumigerous,
  • dodgy,
  • tactful,
  • pappose,
  • shaggy,
  • excitable,
  • Spinulose,
  • anaphylactic,
  • difficult,
  • High-mettled,
  • Pectinated,
  • scaly,
  • high-spirited,
  • hypersensitive,
  • Two-edged,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • sore,
  • caustically,
  • Mordantly,
  • hostilely,
  • controversial,
  • steel,
  • acicular,
  • viciously,
  • pindling,
  • Dentiform,
  • gnarled,
  • sword,
  • Pileous,
  • hirsute,
  • saber,
  • plumose,
  • worrying,
  • acanthoid,
  • Setigerous,
  • supersensitive,
  • irritably,
  • knotty,
  • Aculeolate,
  • atingle,
  • Setous,
  • cuspidate,
  • fusiform,
  • emotional,
  • nipping,
  • empathetic,
  • spinose,
  • sensitive,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • Knurly,
  • Rugous,
  • Salebrous,
  • Villous,
  • Pappous,
  • acuminated,
  • overrefined,
  • leafy,
  • sympathetic,
  • crisp,
  • Splenetically,
  • laciniform,
  • Arrowheaded,
  • toothed,
  • ratty,
  • falchion,
  • raspy,
  • nervous,
  • sticky,
  • Passible,
  • Muricate,
  • shrewd,
  • firebrand,
  • Arrowy,
  • Bristling,
  • fringed,
  • cuspidated,
  • ensiform,
  • critical,
  • salient,
  • vexatious,
  • cusped,
  • high-strung,
  • studded,
  • scratchy,
  • pilous,
  • Stellated,
  • blade,
  • bristlelike,
  • Startlish,
  • ill-tempered,
  • befringed,
  • Rancorously,
  • marque,
  • bitterly.