prickly

English Thesaurus

1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. (adj.all)

similar	:	armed,
definition	:	(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns (adj.all)

2. very irritable (adj.all)

similar	:	ill-natured,
definition	:	having an irritable and unpleasant disposition (adj.all)

3. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. (adj.all)

derivation	:	seta,
definition	:	a stiff hair or bristle (noun.animal)

derivation	:	barbel, feeler,
definition	:	slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish (noun.animal)

derivation	:	bristle,
definition	:	a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic (noun.artifact)

derivation	:	bristliness, prickliness, spininess, thorniness,
definition	:	the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	bur, burr,
definition	:	seed vessel having hooks or prickles (noun.plant)

derivation	:	briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, smilax rotundifolia,
definition	:	a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries (noun.plant)

derivation	:	pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn,
definition	:	a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf (noun.plant)

4. very irritable (adj.all)

derivation	:	irascibility, quick temper, short temper, spleen,
definition	:	a feeling of resentful anger (noun.feeling)

5. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. (adj.all)

derivation	:	seta,
definition	:	a stiff hair or bristle (noun.animal)

derivation	:	barbel, feeler,
definition	:	slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish (noun.animal)

derivation	:	bristle,
definition	:	a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic (noun.artifact)

derivation	:	bristliness, prickliness, spininess, thorniness,
definition	:	the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	bur, burr,
definition	:	seed vessel having hooks or prickles (noun.plant)

derivation	:	briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, smilax rotundifolia,
definition	:	a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries (noun.plant)

derivation	:	pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn,
definition	:	a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf (noun.plant)

6. very irritable (adj.all)

derivation	:	irascibility, quick temper, short temper, spleen,
definition	:	a feeling of resentful anger (noun.feeling)