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prickly |
Grep of noun prickly prickly-seeded spinach prickly ash prickly custard apple prickly heat prickly lettuce prickly pear prickly pear cactus prickly pine prickly poppy prickly shield fern Overview of adj prickly The adj prickly has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish -- (very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues") 2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny -- (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits") Antonyms of adj prickly 2 senses of prickly Sense 1 bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish INDIRECT (VIA ill-natured) -> good-natured Sense 2 barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny INDIRECT (VIA armed) -> unarmed Similarity of adj prickly 2 senses of prickly Sense 1 bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish => ill-natured (vs. good-natured) Sense 2 barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny => armed (vs. unarmed) Attributes of adj prickly Familiarity of adj prickly prickly used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count = 2) Grep of adj prickly prickly Overview of adj prickly The adj prickly has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish -- (very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues") 2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny -- (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits")
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