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Synonyms for prickly
ˈprɪk liprick·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspishadjective
very irritable
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
Synonyms:
briary, barbed, setose, waspish, bristled, splenic, burred, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, burry, splenetic, spiny, thorny, lienalAntonyms:
good-natured, unarmedbarbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thornyadjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
"a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
Synonyms:
briary, nipping, barbed, setose, waspish, mordacious, pungent, burred, spinous, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, burry, biting, splenetic, spiny, bristledAntonyms:
good-natured, unarmed
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "prickly":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#18316 | biting | |
#33779 | barbed | |
#41099 | prickly | |
#47297 | spiny | |
#48883 | thorny | |
#50552 | pungent | |
#67141 | splenic | |
#91935 | nipping | |
#106653 | burry | |
#114713 | bristly | |
#116969 | bristled | |
#118188 | sculpin | |
#202729 | spinous | |
#326433 | waspish |
How to use prickly in a sentence?
If you don't have irrigation in Colorado -- in the West -- all you're going to grow is probably prickly pear cactus and sagebrush, water is key to that economic growth, not only in Colorado or Western Nebraska, but in California and the West in general.
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.
Anxiety is a prickly friend, but sometimes prickly friends are useful.
Translations for prickly
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- malhumorós, espinósCatalan, Valencian
- heikel, Stachel, reizbar, gereizt, dornig, stacheligGerman
- αγκαθερόςGreek
- peliagudo, difícil, irritable, malhumorado, con espinas, espinudo, espinosoSpanish
- irritable, épineuxFrench
- droighneach, deilgneachScottish Gaelic
- tüskésHungarian
- berduriIndonesian
- spinosoItalian
- דוֹקְרָנִיHebrew
- チクチクしますJapanese
- hirsutae;Latin
- pūtiotio, tōtaraMāori
- espinhoso, irritadiçoPortuguese
- iritabilRomanian
- колючийRussian
- taggigSwedish
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