bristled
- adjective
- /ˈbrɪsəld/
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cerdoso
- The artist chose a bristled paintbrush to create texture in her landscape painting.
They're black bristled, black bristled, black handled, black brushes.
- They're black bristled, black bristled, black handled, black brushes.
Examples
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Bristled polychaete worms insinuated themselves in this living terrain, and sometimes entered the siphons of sponges and tunicates.
Academic text (1992) -
They're black bristled, black bristled, black handled, black brushes.
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I'm going to take my very stiff bristled oil brush.
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I'm going to take my very stiff bristled oil brush.
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All right, this woman named Christine, she bought but a plastic bristled toilet brush, right?
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It's like a short bristled plastic brush that is more like it because you can really get in the roots and wiggle.
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Be it ounce or cat or bear, pard, or boar with bristled hair...
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It's him, she almost screamed; him with his fiery cowl and thick, bristled hair and metal face.
Fiction book (1993) -
I love this brush for liquid products because it has kind of like a spikier, stiffer bristled brush and it kind of like really gets in there and blends the product out quick.
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Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, pard, or boar with bristled hair, in thy eye that shall appear when thou wakest, it is thy dear:
Synonyms
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3.3
Covered with sharp points like thorns that can hurt to touch
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4.4
A thing with sharp points like wire or animal spines that can hurt and catch on things
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4.2
Covered with sharp points like those on rose bushes
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3.9
Covered with sharp points or thorns that can hurt you
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4.6
Covered with short, stiff hairs that feel rough
Having many short stiff hairs like those on a brush
Having many short stiff hairs like bristles
Covered with short stiff hairs that stand up
Having short stiff hairs like a brush
With a small sharp tip like a stiff hair
Covered with many small sharp points like spines
Covered with many small sharp hooks that stick to clothes or fur
Having small prickles that stick to clothes or fur
Antonyms
How Bristly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bristled comes from the simple word bristle, which means 'stiff hair', like the short, stiff hairs on a brush. So when something is bristled it is covered with many small, stiff hairs, spines, or barbs.