What is another word for prickly?
432 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pɹˈɪkli], [ pɹˈɪkli], [ p_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_l_i]Table of Contents
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)
- sharp (adjective)
- thorny (adjective)
- thorny or difficult (adjective)
- armed (noun)
- ill-natured (noun)
- other synonyms
- bloom
- protective
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Prickly:
adj.
•bushy (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- grass,
- gold-plated,
- armor-plated,
- gilded,
- gilt,
- frothy,
- furry,
- gift-wrapped,
- foamy,
- Cobbled.
Other synonyms:
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- granular,
- crinkly,
- lumpy,
- bumpy,
- leathery,
- grooved,
- rugged,
- knobbly,
- coarsely,
- chunky,
- rustic,
- textured,
- grainy,
- rough-hewn,
- knobby,
- knotted,
- wrinkled,
- ragged.
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- fine,
- ticklish,
- nettlesome.
- 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.
Antonyms for Prickly:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
good-tempered, painless, uncomplicated, understanding, companionable, effortless, uncomplaining, straightforward, soothing, easy, undemanding, long-suffering, happy-go-lucky, simple, gregarious, unarmed, unproblematic, manageable, extroverted, silky, carefree, silken, tolerant, sweet, relaxed, forbearing, outgoing, soft, stoic, patient, amiable, affable, easygoing, obliging, genial, agreeable, sociable, well-disposed, friendly, cordial.
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n.
armless.
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n.