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- bristly
collapse - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" related words >
- acanaceous,
- aculeolate,
- barbellate,
- brambly,
- briery,
- bristled,
- bristling,
- bushy,
- cirrose,
- fleecy,
- flocculent,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- glochidiate,
- hairy,
- hirsute,
- hispid,
- lanate,
- matted,
- muricate,
- pilose,
- pricking,
- prickly,
- pricky,
- pubescent,
- setaceous,
- setose,
- setous,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- stinging,
- strigal,
- strigate,
- strigose,
- stubbled,
- stubbly,
- studded,
- thistly,
- thorny,
- unshorn,
- woolly
- thorny
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- bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights" related words >
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- acanaceous,
- acanthoid,
- aciculate,
- aculeolate,
- arduous,
- barbed,
- barbellate,
- brambly,
- briery,
- bristly,
- brutal,
- complex,
- complicated,
- controversial,
- critical,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- intricate,
- involved,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- mean,
- muricate,
- nasty,
- nettlesome,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- operose,
- painful,
- pricking,
- prickly,
- pricky,
- problematic,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- setaceous,
- setose,
- severe,
- spiculate,
- spiculose,
- spiked,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- steep,
- sticky,
- stinging,
- strenuous,
- tangled,
- thistly,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- wicked,
- worrying
- acanaceous,
- acanthoid,
- aciculate,
- aculeate,
- aculeolate,
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- annoying,
- atingle,
- bad-tempered,
- barbed,
- bothersome,
- brambly,
- briery,
- bristly,
- cantankerous,
- complex,
- complicated,
- contentious,
- cranky,
- crawling,
- crawly,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- goosy,
- hard,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- intricate,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- knotty,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- muricate,
- nervous,
- nettlesome,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- peevish,
- perturbable,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- pricking,
- prickling,
- pricky,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- setaceous,
- setose,
- short-tempered,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- spiculate,
- spiky,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- startlish,
- stinging,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- thistly,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- touchy,
- troublesome,
- volcanic,
- waspish
- acanaceous,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- aculeolate,
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- bitter,
- brambly,
- briery,
- brisk,
- bristly,
- burn,
- burning,
- burning pain,
- buzz,
- caustic,
- chafing,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- distressing,
- double-edged,
- edged,
- escharotic,
- excruciating,
- fierce,
- fire,
- fretting,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- grating,
- grave,
- grinding,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- incisive,
- irritant,
- irritating,
- irritative,
- keen,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- muricate,
- nose-tickling,
- painful,
- paresthesia,
- paroxysmal,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pins and needles,
- piquant,
- poignant,
- pricking,
- prickle,
- prickles,
- prickling,
- prickly,
- pricky,
- pungent,
- racking,
- rasping,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- scratchy,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- smart,
- smarting,
- sour,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- sting,
- strident,
- stringent,
- tart,
- thistly,
- thorny,
- thrill,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- trenchant,
- urtication,
- vehement,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- withering
- pointed
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- direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant; "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to what was going on"; "another pointed look in their direction"
- having a point related words >
- Attic,
- Spartan,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- accented,
- accentuated,
- acicular,
- aciform,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- akimbo,
- allegorical,
- angular,
- aphoristic,
- apiculate,
- aposiopestic,
- arresting,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- barbed,
- bent,
- biting,
- brief,
- brilliant,
- brusque,
- clever,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- conspicuous,
- contracted,
- cornered,
- cornuted,
- crisp,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- curt,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decided,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- docked,
- droll,
- elliptic,
- emphasized,
- emphatic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facetious,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forked,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- funny,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gnomic,
- hebetate,
- hispid,
- hooked,
- horned,
- horny,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- in red letters,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- italicized,
- jagged,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- knee-shaped,
- laconic,
- marked,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mordant,
- mucronate,
- muricate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- nimble-witted,
- outstanding,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointy,
- positive,
- pregnant,
- prominent,
- pronged,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- punctuated,
- pungent,
- quick-witted,
- rapier-like,
- readable,
- referential,
- remarkable,
- reserved,
- salient,
- salt,
- salty,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scintillating,
- sententious,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- sharp-pointed,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- signal,
- significant,
- significative,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- sprightly,
- starred,
- stressed,
- striking,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- telling,
- terse,
- tight,
- tined,
- to the point,
- toothed,
- transferred,
- trenchant,
- truncated,
- unbated,
- underlined,
- underscored,
- unmistakable,
- whimsical,
- witty,
- zigzag
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