SPIKY Synonyms

• narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves

• having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses

• capable of wounding

• 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.

• covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth

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

• very irritable

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

• having a sharply uneven surface or outline

• having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

• ending in a sharp point

• like a comb

• very irritable

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

• strong and sharp

• capable of wounding

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• having spines

• 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.

• Any pointed object.

• Pointed in shape; having a point or points.

• In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed arrow symbol ->).

• having or as if having especially high-pitched spots