bristly vs prickly

bristly and prickly both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bristly	No	Yes	No	No
prickly	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, bristly and prickly are synonyms defined as:

bristly and prickly: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Other synonyms of bristly include barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny.

As adjectives, bristly and prickly are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of bristly include splenetic, waspish.

bristly (adjective)	prickly (adjective)
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.	having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
very irritable	very irritable