bushy

[boosh-ee] / ˈbʊʃ i /

ADJECTIVE

shaggy, unkempt

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fluffy fuzzy hairy luxuriant unruly wiry

WEAK

bristling bristly disordered feathery fringed full furry heavy hirsute prickly rough rumpled spreading stiff thick tufted woolly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

smooth

WEAK

bald neat well-kept

Example Sentences

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His eyebrows were so bushy they would, Christopher thought, enter a room several seconds before the rest of him.

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Forest was short and stocky, with a big bushy beard.

From Literature

Still curly, but the curls were larger and bushier and hung past her shoulders.

From Literature

“You ‘need’ them?” she asked, her bushy eyebrows practically leaving her face in disbelief.

From Literature

She was talking with a big man whose bushy brown beard needed a good trimming.

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