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Definition: THISTLY |
THISTLYAdjective1. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking. 2. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "THISTLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mbuluar me carangth, gjembash. (various references) | |
Arabic | شوكي (spinal, spiny), شائك (acarpous, barbed, knotty, prickly, spiked, spiky, spiny, sticky, thorny, touchy, tricky). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обрасъл с магарешки бодли, бодлив (barbed, briery, bur, prickly, scratchy, scrubby, spiny). (various references) | |
Czech | bodavý (prickly). (various references) | |
French | couvert de chardon. (various references) | |
German | stachelig (barbed, bristly, prickly, spiky, spiny, thorny). (various references) | |
Greek | ακανθώδησ (prickly, spinose, spinous, spiny, thorny). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קוצ י (prickly, spiny, thorny). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bogáncsos. (various references) | |
Manx | onnaneagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istlythay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | semelhante ao cardo, que pica como o cardo, cheio de cardos. (various references) | |
Russian | колючий (barbed, briery, bristly, hispid, prickly, spiculate, spiky, spiny, thorny). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obrasatao čičkom. (various references) | |
Spanish | lleno de cardos, espinoso (bony, difficult, knotty, prickly, spiny, stickleback, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, tricky), erizado de dificultades. (various references) | |
Turkish | dikenli (barbed, brambly, prickly, spiky, spined, spinose, spinous, spiny, thorny), diken gibi (spicular, thorny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | колючий (arrowy, barbed, briery, bristling, caustic, cutting, prickly, pricky, punching, spiky, spiny, thorny), зарослий будяками. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"THISTLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thist, twistly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-l-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stithy, tilths. | |
-2 letters: hilts, shily, silty, stilt, styli, tilth, tilts. | |
-3 letters: hilt, hist, hits, list, lits, silt, sith, slit, syli, this, tils, tilt. | |
-4 letters: his, hit, its, lis, lit, shy, sit, sly, sty, thy, til, tis. | |
-5 letters: hi, is, it, li, sh, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-l-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: cystolith, hostility, pettishly, ruttishly, sottishly, thirstily. | |
+3 letters: cystoliths, hesitantly, polytheist, skittishly, sluttishly, stealthily, straightly. | |
+4 letters: hairstylist, hospitality, kittenishly, lithophytes, lithotripsy, mythologist, polytheists. | |
+5 letters: bloodthirsty, coquettishly, distraughtly, hairstylists, hesitatingly, methylations, mythologists, polytheistic, shatteringly, theistically, thriftlessly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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