prickly vs bristled

prickly and bristled both are adjectives.

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

As adjectives, prickly and bristled are synonyms defined as:

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

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

prickly (adjective)	bristled (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.
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