BRISTLY Synonyms

• capable of wounding

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• bristling with perplexities

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth

• having or covered with hair

• hazardous and frightening

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• having or as if having especially high-pitched spots

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having spines

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• of or relating to the spleen

• very irritable

• very irritable