Animals
Synonyms for bristly
The synonym for bristly recorded in this bank is barbed, in the sense "having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for bristly
- barbedadjective, in the sense "having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and bristly carries one sense so far.
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
The plant's bristly stem pricked my fingers when I grabbed it.
The true synonym
barbed
Same sentence, swapped: The plant's barbed stem pricked my fingers when I grabbed it.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- pubescent
- hirsute
- fleecy
Where bristly turns up in the game
bristly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play bristly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bristly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because animals is the company bristly keeps.
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