PRICKLY meaning: Sharp, pointed texture causing discomfort

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word PRICKLY:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

prickly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prickly: Merriam-Webster
prickly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
prickly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
prickly: Collins English Dictionary
prickly: Vocabulary.com
Prickly, prickly: Wordnik
prickly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
prickly: Wiktionary
prickly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
prickly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
prickly: Infoplease Dictionary
Prickly, prickly: Dictionary.com
prickly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Prickly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
prickly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
prickly: Rhymezone
prickly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
prickly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
prickly: FreeDictionary.org
prickly: Mnemonic Dictionary
prickly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

prickly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
prickly: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

prickly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prickly)

▸ adjective:  Covered with sharp points.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Easily irritated.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny.
▸ adverb:  In a prickly manner.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object.

Similar:

thorny, spiny, bristly, bristled, barbed, briery, burry, armed, splenetic, waspish, more...

Opposite:

smooth, sleek, slick, polished

Types:

cactus, hedgehog, porcupine, prickly pear, thorny, more...

Phrases:

prickly pear, prickly heat, prickly pears, prickly ash, prickly poppy, more...

Adjectives:

stickly, little, cold, long, short, early, damn

Colors:

olive, sage, khaki, mustard, chartreuse, more...