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| Main Entry: | prickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorny or difficult |
| Synonyms: | annoying, barbed, bothersome, bristly, complicated, intricate, involved, knotty, nettlesome, pointed, sharp, spiny, stimulating, ticklish, tricky, troublesome, trying, brambly, briery, echinated |
| Antonyms: | smooth |
| Main Entry: | prickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, bad-tempered |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, edgy, fractious, fretful, grumpy, irritable, peevish, petulant, snappish, touchy, waspish |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleasant |
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| Main Entry: | bushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaggy, unkempt |
| Synonyms: | bristly, disordered, feathery, fluffy, fringed, full, fuzzy, hairy, heavy, hirsute, leafy, luxuriant, nappy, prickly, rough, spreading, stiff, thick, tufted, unruly, wiry, woolly, bristling, furry, rumpled |
| Antonyms: | bald, neat, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, disagreeable, dour, grouchy*, grumpy*, huffy*, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy*, testy, bearish, ill-humored, vinegarish, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irritable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered, crabby |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, cantankerous, carping, choleric, complaining, contentious, cross, crotchety, disputatious, dissatisfied, dyspeptic, fiery, fractious, fretful, gloomy, grouchy, grumbling, hasty, hot, huffy, hypercritical, irascible, moody, morose, peevish, petulant, plaintive, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, sensitive, snappy, surly, tense, testy, touchy, bearish, brooding, crabbed, easily offended, exasperated, fretting, ill-humored, out of humor, oversensitive, resentful, snarling |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, nice |
| Main Entry: | crabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, chuffy, crabbed, ill-humored, mumpish, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | amiable, good-humored, good-natured, happy, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | crusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabby*, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snippy, surly, testy, touchy, crabbed, ill-humored, snarling, snippety, splenetic, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knifelike, cutting |
| Synonyms: | acute, barbed, fine, jagged, keen, peaked, pointed, prickly, salient, serrated, spiked, spiny, stinging, tapering, thorny, aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, apical, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, ground fine, honed, horned, keen-edged, knife-edged, needle-pointed, needlelike, pointy, pronged, razor-sharp, sharp-edged, sharpened, spiky, splintery, tapered, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | thorny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp, pointed |
| Synonyms: | barbed, bristly, prickly, spiked, spiny, stinging, arrowlike, briery, bristling, spiky, spinous, thistly |
| Antonyms: | dull, smooth, unpointed |
| Main Entry: | thorny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, problematic |
| Synonyms: | awkward, baffling, bothersome, formidable, hard, irksome, nettlesome, perplexing, prickly, severe, sticky, ticklish, tough, tricky, troublesome, trying, unpleasant, vexatious, worrying, harassing, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | easy, solvable, untroublesome |
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| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun, noun1, noun2 |
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asperous, bearded, befringed, bullate, bushy, calcified, callused, chaetigerous, ciliated, coriaceous, cragged, craggy, crankling, crinite, crinose, crisp, dumose, echinate, feathery, filamentous, fimbriate, fimbriated, fringed, gnarled, hairy, hirsute, hispid, horripilating, irrefrangible, kerasine, knotted, laciniate, lanate, lanuginose, lanuginous, leafy, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, lined, ondoyant, pachydermatous, pappous, pilous, plumigerous, plumose, prickly, rough, rough as a bear, rough as a nutmeg, rugate, rugged, rugose, rugous, salebrous, scabrous, scored, scraggly, scraggy, scrobiculate, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shrunk, sotadic, suberose, tomentous, tufted, uneven, unpolished, unsmooth, unsnod, vermiculated, verrucose, villous, weathered, well, woolly, wrinkled
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| Main Entry: | sharpness |
| Part of Speech: | |
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two, acanaceous, acicular, aciform, acuate, aculeated, acuminate, acuminated, acute, ansal, arrow, barbed, belonoid, briery, bristling, conical, corniculate, cornute, cornuted, craggy, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cutting, denticulated, dentiform, digitated, ensiform, forticate, fusiform, gladiate, glockamoid, hastate, inermous, keen, keen as a razor, knife, mucronate, mucronated, muricate, muricated, needle, odontoid, oxyacanthous, peaked, pectinated, pointed, prickly, pyramidal, salient, set, sharp, sharp, sharp as a needle, sharp as a razor, snaggy, spiculed, spiked, spiky, spindle, spiny, spurred, starlike, stellated, stelliform, studded, tapering, thistly, thorny, toothed, xyresic
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