brushy
1 of 2adjective (1)
ˈbrə-shē 
brushier; brushiest
: covered with or abounding in brush or brushwood
brushy hills
a brushy habitat
brushy
2 of 2adjective (2)
brushier; brushiest
: shaggy, rough
a brushy moustache
Synonyms
Adjective (2)
- bristly
- cottony
- fleecy
- furred
- furry
- hairy
- hirsute
- rough
- shaggy
- silky
- unshorn
- woolly
- wooly
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Word History
First Known Use
Adjective (1)
1567, in the meaning defined above
Adjective (2)
1665, in the meaning defined above
brushy
adjective
as in shaggy
covered with or as if with hair the vogue for brushy cheeks on men reached a whimsical apex in the 19th century when muttonchop whiskers came in fashion Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- shaggy
- hairy
- silky
- bristly
- woolly
- hirsute
- cottony
- furred
- rough
- fluffy
- fleecy
- wooly
- furry
- unshorn
- bearded
- stubbled
- stubbly
- fuzzy
- whiskered
- bewhiskered
- mustachioed
- downy
- moustachioed
- linty
- nappy
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- bald
- smooth
- hairless
- glabrous
- shorn
- shaven
- shaved
- furless
- beardless
- theatricalized
- theatricalizes
- theatricalizing
- theatrically
- theatricalness
- theatricalnesses
- theatricals
- theatrician
- theatricise
- theatricised
- theatricises
- theatricising
- theatricism
- theatricized
- theatricizes
- theatricizing
- theatrics
- theatro-
- theatrocracy
- theatrograph
- theatrophones
- theave
- theaves
- thebae
- Thebaic