All prickly synonyms
prick·ly
P p adj prickly
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- chuffy — boorish and surly
- acuate — to sharpen
- crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- bushy — Bushy hair or fur is very thick.
- horned — made of horn.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- knife-edged — having a thin, sharp edge.
- lancinating — to stab or pierce.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
adjective prickly
- contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- mumpish — Sullen or sulky.
- barbed — A barbed remark or joke seems polite or humorous, but contains a cleverly hidden criticism.
- arrowlike — resembling an arrow
- needlelike — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- itchy — having or causing an itching sensation.
- knifelike — Resembling a knife or its effects.
noun prickly
- irritability — the quality or state of being irritable.
- irritation — the act of irritating or the state of being irritated.
- itch — to have or feel a peculiar tingling or uneasy irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected: My nose itches.
- itchiness — having or causing an itching sensation.