prickly - Similar and Opposite Words

What is another word for prickly ?

Here are the synonyms for prickly , a list of similar words for prickly from our thesaurus that you can use

Adjective

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Synonyms

• barbed
• barbellate
• briary
• briery
• bristled
• bristly
• burred
• burry
• prickly
• setaceous
• setose
• spiny
• thorny

Related

• armed

Adjective

very irritable

Synonyms

• bristly
• prickly
• splenetic
• waspish

Related

• ill-natured

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