193 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ spˈa͡ɪki], [ spˈa‍ɪki], [ s_p_ˈaɪ_k_i]

Similar words for spiky:

• abrasive (adjective)
• argumentative (adjective)
• knifelike (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• polemic (adjective)
• sharp (adjective)
• spiny (adjective)
• high (noun)
• high-pitched (noun)
• litigiousness (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Homophones for spiky

Synonyms for Spiky:

• adj.

  • abrasive (adjective)
  • cutting,
  • hateful,
  • caustic,
  • sharp,
  • hard to take,
  • hurtful,
  • spikier,
  • galling,
  • biting,
  • spikiest,
  • annoying,
  • unpleasant,
  • nasty,
  • rubbing the wrong way.
  • argumentative (adjective)
  • contrary,
  • belligerent,
  • contentious,
  • scrappy,
  • quarrelsome,
  • touchy,
  • having a chip on one's shoulder,
  • fire eating,
  • factious,
  • opinionated,
  • controversial,
  • polemical,
  • pugnacious,
  • litigious,
  • salty,
  • polemic,
  • fire-eating,
  • combative,
  • disputatious.
  • knifelike (adjective)
  • lancinating,
  • stabbing,
  • knifelike,
  • piercing,
  • Gnawing,
  • shooting.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • spinous,
  • arrowlike,
  • Echinate,
  • thorny,
  • hispid,
  • Pricky,
  • Echinated,
  • Thistly,
  • spiny.
  • polemic (adjective)
  • Eristic.
  • sharp (adjective)
  • bristly,
  • needlelike,
  • stinging,
  • Unblunted,
  • Whetted,
  • prickly,
  • splintery,
  • ground fine,
  • sharp-edged,
  • Needle-pointed,
  • jagged,
  • razor-sharp,
  • knife-edged,
  • tipped,
  • sharpened,
  • fine,
  • spiked,
  • needle-like,
  • edged,
  • cuspate,
  • keen-edged,
  • apical,
  • sagittal,
  • acute,
  • pointed,
  • pointy,
  • Acuminous,
  • needle-point,
  • spear-like,
  • barbed,
  • Honed,
  • razor-edged,
  • keen,
  • serrated,
  • acuate.
  • spiny (adjective)
  • more hispid,
  • most hispid.

• n.

  •
  • coarse,
  • rugged,
  • abrasive,
  • rough,
  • irregular,
  • ragged,
  • uneven,
  • textured.
  •
  • body,
  • coiffed,
  • bushy,
  • bouffant,
  • balding,
  • bedhead,
  • close-cropped,
  • bad hair day,
  • bald.
  • high (noun)
  • high.
  • high-pitched (noun)
  • high-pitched.
  • litigiousness (noun)
  • contentiousness,
  • disputatiousness,
  • combativeness.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • scrappiness,
  • Contraries,
  • belligerents,
  • scrappies,
  • Litigiousness.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • acuminate,
  • intelligent,
  • Mucronulate,
  • Aciculiform,
  • slender,
  • sagittate,
  • shrewd,
  • pungent,
  • needle-shaped,
  • Aculeous,
  • Spined,
  • Arrowy,
  • Aciform,
  • Odontoid,
  • Mucronate,
  • cuspidate,
  • spikelike,
  • argumentative,
  • Setaceous,
  • apiculate,
  • piquant,
  • Spicular,
  • aculeated,
  • skinny,
  • Denticulated,
  • ensiform,
  • cuspidated,
  • horned,
  • Setose,
  • Snaggy,
  • Pectinated,
  • serrate,
  • fusiform,
  • toothed,
  • Cornute,
  • studded,
  • Stelliform,
  • Hebetate,
  • bitter,
  • starlike,
  • incisive,
  • conical,
  • sagittiform,
  • tined,
  • Digitated,
  • tapering,
  • acanthoid,
  • aculeate,
  • acuminated,
  • briary,
  • peaky,
  • slim,
  • briery,
  • intense,
  • salient,
  • craggy,
  • pyramidal,
  • Dentiform,
  • Spurred,
  • Arrowheaded,
  • Muricated,
  • Spiculate,
  • tapered,
  • Bristling,
  • higher,
  • Two-edged,
  • Cornuted,
  • brambly,
  • aciculate,
  • pronged,
  • Stellated,
  • cusped,
  • thin,
  • peaked,
  • alert,
  • horny,
  • Mucronated,
  • Muricate,
  • thin person,
  • acicular.

Homophones for Spiky:

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