bristly vs thorny

bristly and thorny both are adjectives.

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

As adjectives, bristly and thorny are synonyms defined as:

bristly and thorny: 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, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny.

bristly (adjective)	thorny (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	bristling with perplexities