| Main Entry: | bristly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with stiff hairs |
Synonyms: |
aristate, barbellate, chaetophorous, echinate, hispid, setaceous, setal, setarious, setiferous, setose, spiny |
Antonyms: |
clean-shaven, smooth |
| Main Entry: | bearded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having facial hair |
Synonyms: |
barbate, beardy, bewhiskered, bristly, bushy, goateed, hairy, hirsute, shaggy, stubbled, stubbly, unshaven, whiskered |
Antonyms: |
unbearded, unhirsute |
| Main Entry: | bushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaggy, unkempt |
Synonyms: |
bristling, bristly, disordered, feathery, fluffy, fringed, full, furry, fuzzy, hairy, heavy, hirsute, leafy, luxuriant, nappy, prickly, rough, rumpled, spreading, stiff, thick, tufted, unruly, wiry, woolly |
Antonyms: |
bald, neat, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | hairy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having much hair |
Synonyms: |
bearded, bewhiskered, bristly, bushy, downy, fleecy, flocculent, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, hirsute, lanate, pileous, piliferous, pilose, pubescent, rough, shaggy, stubbly, tufted, unshaven, unshorn, villous, whiskered, woolly |
Antonyms: |
bald, balding, clean, hairless |
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
Synonyms: |
angry, bearish, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | prickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorny or difficult |
Synonyms: |
annoying, barbed, bothersome, brambly, briery, bristly, complicated, echinated, intricate, involved, knotty, nettlesome, pointed, sharp, spiny, stimulating, ticklish, tricky, troublesome, trying |
Antonyms: |
smooth |
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uneven, irregular |
Synonyms: |
asperous, bearded, brambly, bristly, broken, bumpy, bushy, chapped, choppy, coarse, cragged, craggy, cross-grained, disheveled, fuzzy, hairy, harsh, jagged, knobby, knotty, nappy, nodular, not smooth, ridged, rocky, ruffled, rugged, scabrous, scraggy, shaggy, sharp, stony, tangled, tousled, tufted, unequal, unfinished, unlevel, unshaven, unshorn, woolly, wrinkled, wrinkly |
Antonyms: |
even, level, polished, regular, smooth |
| Main Entry: | thorny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp, pointed |
Synonyms: |
arrowlike, barbed, briery, bristling, bristly, prickly, spiked, spiky, spinous, spiny, stinging, thistly |
Antonyms: |
dull, smooth, unpointed |
| Main Entry: | wiry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin and strong |
Synonyms: |
agile, athletic, bristly, fibrous, lean, light, limber, muscular, ropy, sinewy, stiff, strapping, stringy, supple, tough |
Antonyms: |
small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | furry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hairy |
Synonyms: |
bristly, bushy, fleecy, flocculent, fuzzy, hirsute, pilose, pilous, shaggy, stubbly, whiskered, woolly |