bristled

Speech parts

1. bristled - Adjective

2. bristled - Verb

4. bristled - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Bristle

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

burry barbed spiny thorny prickly bristly setaceous briery setose barbellate briary burred biting abound bristle
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Antonyms

silken smooth dissolved faded dissipated diffused
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Phrases with the word

bristled grassbird

Anagrams

streblid

Examples

Kettelman bristled. Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted. Robert Sheckley

But we should kill him!' 'No. You've been listen to Brocando too often,' said Bane. Brocando bristled. 'You know what he is! Why not kill--' he began, but he was interrupted. 'Because it doesn't matter what he is. It matters what we are. Terry Pratchett

Simon bristled. She wasn't his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn't seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her. Cassandra Clare

a horse with a short bristly mane Source: Internet

bristly shrubs Source: Internet

burred fruits Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bristlecone fir bristlecone pine bristlecone pines bristled grassbird bristlefront bristlegrass