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present participle of bristle.

bristling

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bushy adj.
echinate adj.
fraught adj.
pricky adj.
teeming adj.
thick adj.
thistly adj.
thorny adj.
roughness n.

ADJECTIVE

bushy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fluffy fuzzy hairy luxuriant unruly wiry

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

smooth

WEAK

bald neat well-kept

ADJECTIVE

echinate

Synonyms

WEAK

barbed briery echinated prickly pricky spiked spiky spiny thistly

ADJECTIVE

fraught

Synonyms

STRONGEST

charged filled replete

WEAK

abounding attended heavy laden stuffed

Antonyms

WEAK

empty

ADJECTIVE

pricky

Synonyms

WEAK

barbed briery bristly echinate prickly spiked spiky spinous spiny stinging thistly

ADJECTIVE

teeming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

brimming filled overflowing packed swarming

STRONG

bursting crammed crawling replete thronged

WEAK

alive brimful chock-full fruitful multitudinous numerous plentiful populous pregnant rife thick

Antonyms

STRONGEST

empty

WEAK

lacking needing wanting

ADJECTIVE

thick

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant dense full impenetrable tight

STRONG

close compact great rank solid

WEAK

brimming bursting chock-full compressed concentrated condensed considerable covered crammed crawling with frequent heaped impervious inspissated like sardines localized multitudinous numerous populated populous profuse replete several swarming teeming

Antonyms

STRONGEST

open sparse thin

STRONG

loose

WEAK

attenuated clear diluted intelligent reasonable sensible slight smart uncrowded unfriendly unsociable watery wise

ADJECTIVE

thistly

Synonyms

WEAK

barbed briery bristly echinate prickly pricky spiked spiky spinous spiny stinging

ADJECTIVE

thorny

Synonyms

STRONGEST

prickly spiky

WEAK

arrowlike barbed briery bristly spiked spinous spiny stinging thistly

Antonyms

WEAK

dull easy smooth solvable unpointed untroublesome

NOUN

roughness

Synonyms

STRONG

break bumpiness coarseness crack hairiness jaggedness nick raggedness scratch shagginess unevenness

WEAK

beardedness brokenness bushiness crinkledness ragged edge woolliness wrinkledness

Antonyms

WEAK

courtesy evenness gentility kindness politeness regularity smoothness

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bristling

A few blocks away, members of another branch of the House of Rothschild were bristling over the reputational knock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

Messi and his team-mates will head into the final bristling with confidence after another ruthless, high-scoring demolition job that followed on from their 4-0 drubbing of FC Cincinnati in the previous round.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

The tower is bristling with high-tech instruments - sensors that track almost everything happening between the forest and the atmosphere: water vapor, carbon dioxide, sunlight, and essential nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025

Its tone remained sarcastic, but its fur was bristling, and its brush of a tail stuck up in the air.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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