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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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 |
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