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PRICKLY
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Irregular inflected forms: pricklier , prickliest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Example:
setaceous whiskers
Synonyms:
barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny
Classified under:
Similar:
armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)
Derivation:
prickle (a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf)
prickliness (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very irritable
Example:
witty and waspish about his colleagues
Synonyms:
bristly; prickly; splenetic; waspish
Classified under:
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
