bushy
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1.3
- adjective
- /ˈbʌʃi/
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- The mangroves had bushy tops with all sorts of birds nesting in them.
- a bushy beard
- bushy hair
- a bushy tail
Oh my, some bushy brows today.
- Oh my, some bushy brows today.
- Lindsay Lohan would have a bushy squirrel's tail that's long.
- Male, not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows.
- It sort of has a more wild sort of bushy kind of overgrowth look to the actual vegetation.
- If a woman, on the other hand, has a, a big bushy beard, things look a little odd, right?
Examples
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The man in black had bushy eyebrows.
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I could see bushy white hair and white facial hair.
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just a young guy with a bunch of bushy hair, and it looked red under the lights.
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My own hair was bushy and grew over me like a black rain cloud.
Fiction book (1990) -
A great big bushy beard.
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He has dark hair and thick, bushy eyebrows.
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I leaned forward toward a bushy-haired young man sitting two rows in front of me.
Fiction book (1990) -
His brown hair and bushy beard were so snarled that no barber would approach them.
Fiction book (1994) -
So I'm just fluffing up my brows to make them look like Brooke Shields and really bushy and full and very pretty.
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He has dark hair and thick, bushy eyebrows.
Synonyms
134
1.0
Having a lot of hair on the body or surface
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3.2
With long, thick, untidy hair, fur, or material that looks rough
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3.8
Covered with many low bushes or thick plants
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3.7
Long, thick hair that looks messy and not neat
Having a lot of hair on the head or body
Having long, thick, untidy fur or hair that needs brushing
Having thick, curly or matted hair like wool
Covered in thick, soft hairs like short wool on leaves or stems
Covered in many short, woolly hairs on a leaf or stem
Like land with wild plants and small trees
A plant stem covered with soft hairs like wool
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A plant from eastern North America that comes back each year with many small white flowers
How Bushy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bushy comes from the simple word bush, which means 'small tree' or 'shrub', plus the ending -y that means 'full of' or 'like'. So bushy describes hair, fur, or plants that are thick and spread out, just like a little bush.