prickly
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prickly
adjective pricklier · prickliest
- Covered with sharp points. The prickly pear is a cactus; you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.
- Easily irritated; thorny. He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.
- Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny. It was a prickly situation.
adverb more prickly · most prickly
- In a prickly manner. Striding across stage in his bright white jacket, his voice soaring and cracking – like Charlie Parker’s – he was nervous but prickly eloquent, caustic yet encouraging.
noun pricklies
- Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object. Below, way out on the flat, Blue had seen a light green that could be graze but up here was nothing 'cept all kinds of prickly bushes, and too many of them. Ground-spreading pricklies that reached out to jump at a horse's belly […]
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A person who favours formal, structured, organized settings.
Planned variation was based on systematically applying different educational approaches developed by academic experts, each of whom was to become a "sponsor" of a single type of program – from highly structured classroom models, sometimes called "pricklies," to open classrooms and more exploratory e
Opposite: gooey
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: barbed, bristly, bristled, armed, splenetic, ill-natured, thorny, spiny, burry, barbellate, briary, briery, waspish, burred, lappaceous, pear
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adj covered with sharp points
| Español | espinoso, espinudo, con espinas |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | कटीला kaṭīlā |
| Português | espinhoso |
| Français | épineux |
| Deutsch | stachelig, dornig, Stachel- |
| Ελληνικά | αγκαθερός agkatherós |
| Română | țepos, ghimpos, spinos |
| Русский | колю́чий koljúčij |
adj easily irritated
| Español | irritable, malhumorado |
|---|---|
| Português | irritadiço |
| Français | irritable, irascible |
| Deutsch | reizbar, gereizt, kratzbürstig |
| Italiano | permaloso, suscettibile |
| Ελληνικά | αγκαθερός agkatherós |
| Română | iritabil, irascibil, supărăcios |
Talk about this word "prickly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/prickly. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. prickly. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/prickly "prickly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/prickly.Cite this
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