prickly vs bristly

prickly and bristly both are adjectives.

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

As adjectives, prickly and bristly are synonyms defined as:

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

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

As adjectives, prickly and bristly are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of prickly include splenetic, waspish.

prickly (adjective)	bristly (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