prickly

prickly is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
2. adjective. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

   "a horse with a short bristly mane"

   "bristly shrubs"

   Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

3. adjective. very irritable

   "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"

   "he became prickly and spiteful"

   Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish

Synonyms

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny, splenetic, waspish

Common word forms

pricklier, prickliest

Words from these letters

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