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Verb
Present participle for to become excitedly upset or angry
Present participle for to rise or stand erect, like bristles
Present participle for to be covered with or abundant in (something)
Present participle for to feel, show, or express great anger
Present participle for to cause to become angry
Present participle for to bristle, protrude or point up
Adjective
Covered with hair or bristles
Filled, crowded, or well-supplied with something
Having many thorns or thorn bushes
Rigidly upright or straight
High in tension or levels of conflict
Noun
The state or quality of having a rough surface
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to become excitedly upset or angry
fuming
seething
raging
storming
boiling
spitting
bridling
flaring
objecting
recoiling
resenting
ruffling
swelling
seeing red
going ballistic
blowing up
flaring up
getting angry
wigging out
becoming indignant
drawing oneself up
taking umbrage
rearing up
taking offense
taking offence
becoming annoyed
becoming infuriated
boiling over
becoming upset
getting your dander up
getting your hackles up
prickling
going crook
raising your hackles
getting your back up
“The actors
bristle
at the notion that this sentiment will alienate a patriotic audience.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to rise or stand erect, like bristles
prickling
rising
horripilating
standing up
stiffening
poking out
sticking out
standing on end
becoming erect
“Its passionate verve makes your hair
bristle
with sheer pleasure.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be covered with or abundant in (something)
abounding
teeming
brimming
overflowing
swarming
bursting
crawling
humming
bulging
buzzing
pullulating
bustling
swelling
superabounding
prospering
flowing
crowding
overrunning
thronging
packing
jamming
bursting at the seams
bursting at seams
seething
brimming over
thriving
flourishing
proliferating
holding no more
infesting
teeming with
abounding with
overflowing with
abounding in
crawling with
swarming with
growing on trees
having a full plate
pullulating with
bearing
growing
streaming
rolling in
pouring out
existing in abundance
more ❯
“Built to last, they
bristle
with every modern convenience.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel, show, or express great anger
fuming
seething
raging
boiling
storming
rankling
steaming
exploding
sizzling
raving
foaming
burning
ranting
spitting
smouldering
UK
blustering
chafing
simmering
smoldering
US
angering
seeing red
going ballistic
hitting the roof
blowing a fuse
going berserk
ranting and raving
blowing up
flaring up
flying off the handle
foaming at the mouth
losing control
going off the deep end
going up the wall
wigging out
getting worked up
cracking up
losing one's temper
spitting feathers
getting hot under the collar
getting steamed up
raising the roof
champing at the bit
getting hot
getting steamed up about
chomping at the bit
breathing fire
frothing at the mouth
losing your rag
going ape
erupting
becoming enraged
going mad
losing your temper
having a fit
fulminating
blowing a gasket
roaring
losing it
jumping up and down
getting angry
going crazy
getting mad
blowing your top
going wild
going bananas
going into a rage
throwing a fit
flipping
scolding
thundering
complaining
becoming angry
hitting the ceiling
going spare
flipping one's wig
going through the roof
boiling with rage
foaming at mouth
flipping your lid
flipping out
blowing one's stack
going psycho
going crackers
going non-linear
blazing
festering
glowering
flaring
sputtering
becoming very angry
stewing
broiling
shouting
going into a fury
becoming furious
popping one's cork
flying into a rage
throwing a tantrum
bellowing
sounding off
heating
growing passionate
becoming animated
becoming excited
getting annoyed
heating up
becoming impassioned
becoming annoyed
getting excited
growing vehement
fretting
yelling
spluttering
screaming
spouting
huffing
haranguing
bridling
letting off steam
tearing into
losing the plot
working oneself into sweat
snapping at
making a scene
having a tantrum
boiling over
looking daggers
yapping
protesting
going into orbit
throwing a wobbly
losing your cool
going postal
having a conniption fit
having a cow
bursting a blood vessel
gnashing your teeth
getting all steamed up
shooting off one's mouth
freaking out
losing your head
getting your dander up
going crook
blowing one's cool
beginning to rant and rave
blowing
boiling over with rage
flying into a passion
flying into a temper
firing up
losing one's mind
freaking
becoming irate
getting carried away
getting in a rage
going nuts
snapping
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause to become angry
angering
enraging
annoying
incensing
infuriating
provoking
galling
irritating
maddening
exasperating
vexing
displeasing
piquing
riling
aggravating
antagonising
UK
antagonizing
US
inflaming
nettling
outraging
irking
exciting
offending
ruffling
fretting
hassling
miffing
peeving
putting out
affronting
agitating
bugging
narking
needling
driving crazy
driving mad
enflaming
gravelling
graveling
iring
madding
rankling
roiling
ticking off
burning up
chafing
crossing
empurpling
goading
grilling
acerbating
arousing
baiting
boiling
burning
crazing
embittering
exacerbating
rubbing up the wrong way
steaming up
driving up the wall
getting at
getting someone
teeing off
blowing up
egging on
getting across
getting on your nerves
getting your back up
hacking off
raising hell
stirring up
winding up
getting in your hair
getting your dander up
giving someone the pip
losing one's temper
making someone see red
making sore
making your blood boil
putting your back up
getting on one's nerves
getting on your wick
getting under your skin
getting up someone's nose
getting your goat
making somebody's hackles rise
rattling someone's cage
ruffling one's feathers
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bristle, protrude or point up
sticking up
protruding
pointing up
pointing upward
standing on end
standing up
Adjective
▲
Covered with hair or bristles
bushy
bristly
shaggy
fuzzy
furry
woolly
UK
hairy
hirsute
rough
wooly
US
fluffy
thick
prickly
jungly
leafy
stiff
feathery
nappy
wiry
tufted
fringed
luxuriant
shrubby
brushy
brushlike
scrubby
fleecy
unshorn
cottony
stubbly
furred
unshaven
bearded
downy
silky
bewhiskered
whiskered
flocculent
pilose
long-haired
pileous
lanate
pappose
villous
pubescent
piliferous
hispid
crinigerous
crinite
hair-covered
uncut
ruffled
coarse
pilous
brambly
scratchy
covered with fur
crinose
shock-headed
soft
dishevelled
UK
tousled
tangled
whiskery
floccose
disheveled
US
velvety
barbate
stubbled
beardy
barbed
goateed
linty
lanose
flossy
featherlike
velutinous
Adjective
▲
Filled, crowded, or well-supplied with something
teeming
full
swarming
crowded
packed
filled
overflowing
crammed
abounding
brimming
replete
bursting
brimful
thronged
awash
thick
abundant
rife
flush
heaving
seething
lousy
crawling
fraught
thronging
populous
alive
plentiful
multitudinous
numerous
fruitful
pregnant
jam-packed
chock-full
chock-a-block
stuffed
overrun
full of
congested
jammed
beset
infested
dense
heavy
pullulating
abounding in
chock-full of
hopping
bustling
jumping
cramped
swamped
hoaching
buzzing
hotching
loaded
mobbed
huddled
overcrowded
massed
flooded
up to the hilt
filled to the rafters
crushed
wall-to-wall
sardined
elbow-to-elbow
full up
fit to bust
busy
full of commotion
permeated
pervaded
covered
choked
solid
close
compact
tight
charged
serried
lush
deep
great
chocker
compressed
populated
heaped
generous
laden
attended
rife with
crawling with
loaded with
swarming with
thick with
overrun by
cram-full of
bursting at the seams
brimming with
charged with
weighed down
like sardines
filled with
bristling with
having a considerable amount of
having a copious amount of
attended by
brimful of
accompanied by
overfull
chockablock
overloaded
chockful
full to bursting
fat
filled to capacity
overpopulated
like Piccadilly Circus
packed like sardines
running over
bulging at the seams
saturated
inundated
clogged
abundant in
cram-full
overwhelmed
occupied
complete
full to the gunwales
burdened
plenteous
spilling over
profuse
crammed full
full to capacity
filled up
full to overflowing
filled to the brim
teeming with
packed out
replete with
overpeopled
crammed with
hoatching
stacked
superabundant
stocked
overfilled
gorged
bursting with
jammed full
up to the rafters
topped up
packed with
like the Black Hole of Calcutta
jammed with
stuffed with
awash with
jam-packed with
overflowing with
overstocked
copious
glutted
overprovided
lavish with
oversupplied
generous with
densely populated
peopled
liberal with
bulging
profuse with
extravagant with
well supplied
well stocked
lined
bounteous
free with
full of people
unstinting with
suffused
padded
plethoric
weighted
using a lot of
level with
overabundant in
fraught with
full to the gills
using too much of
full to the brim
bursting at the seams with
resplendent with
alive with
beset with
full to the top
rich in
overcrowded with
entire
groaning
unabridged
frantic
encumbered
topfull
humming
deluged
jampacked
many
weighted down
flushed
gridlocked
big
whole
overusing
overburdened
fecund with
at full capacity
sufficient
knee-deep in
overgrown
chock full
imbued
impregnated
aswarm
sold out
ample
jam-full
standing room only
snarled up
packed to capacity
cram full
completely full
settled
prolific
lavish
supplied
luxurious
solid with people
packed to the gunwales
opulent
infinite
inexhaustible
well frequented
well patronized
heavily populated
to the roof
choke-full
galore
thickly populated
well-provided
well-stocked
well provided
plagued
heavily settled
in abundance
overloaded with
well provided with
brimful with
well stocked with
crowded with
chocker with
chock-a-block with
a gogo
well supplied with
solid with
bountiful
buggy
pest-ridden
cornucopian
scaturient
inundant
torrential
inundatory
thick on the ground
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Having many thorns or thorn bushes
thorny
prickly
barbed
spiny
brambly
spiky
bristly
spiked
scratchy
sharp
pointed
spinous
briary
thistly
briery
spinose
spined
stinging
bristling with thorns
echinate
pricky
echinated
pronged
pointy
jagged
serrated
honed
sharpened
whetted
keen
edged
peaked
acute
tipped
bristled
unblunted
acuate
spiculate
spicular
aculeate
cuspate
razor-sharp
horned
needlelike
sharp-edged
knifelike
splintery
tined
muricate
barbellate
setaceous
knife-edged
keen-edged
needle-pointed
cuspidate
acuminate
aciculate
acuminous
fine
apical
piercing
gnawing
shooting
stabbing
tapered
salient
tapering
lancinating
ground fine
burry
rough
sawtooth
sawtoothed
cutting
setiferous
chaetophorous
stiff
setigerous
sticky
spiniferous
jaggy
stropped
ground
trenchant
razor-edged
spired
edgy
knife-like
penetrating
razor
Adjective
▲
Rigidly upright or straight
erect
upright
perpendicular
vertical
straight
raised
standing
plumb
cocked
firm
rigid
upstanding
elevated
rampant
stiff
arrect
erectile
standing up
bolt upright
pricked-up
stand-up
standing up on end
standing at attention
upended
on end
straight up and down
rearing
straight-up
straight up
upward
perky
steep
sheer
erected
on one's feet
up-and-down
in a standing position
straight down
up and down
at right angles
unbent
unbowed
more ❯
Adjective
▲
High in tension or levels of conflict
angry
heated
fiery
impassioned
acrimonious
antagonistic
bad-tempered
hateful
ill-tempered
lively
passionate
spiteful
tempestuous
unfriendly
vindictive
acrid
antipathetic
antisocial
argumentative
belligerent
contentious
disagreeable
disputatious
embittered
icy
ill-humoured
UK
ill-humored
US
inflammable
inimical
intolerant
quarrelsome
querulous
rancorous
spirited
virulent
vitriolic
malicious
manic
mean
unpleasant
vengeful
hysterical
lawless
ugly
uncomfortable
uneasy
vicious
violent
Noun
▲
The state or quality of having a rough surface
roughness
bumpiness
coarseness
lumpiness
unevenness
bristliness
brokenness
bushiness
crinkledness
crudity
fuzziness
hairiness
irregularity
jaggedness
raggedness
shagginess
woolliness
wrinkledness
ragged edge
crookedness
distortion
aberration
scratchiness
patchiness
cragginess
wiriness
sharpness
imperfection
ruggedness
prickliness
inconsistency
serration
knobbiness
knobbliness
rockiness
disproportion
asymmetry
deviation
contortion
non-uniformity
lack of symmetry
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