bushy

adjective

ˈbu̇-shē 

bushier; bushiest

1

: full of or overgrown with bushes

2

: resembling a bush

especially : being thick and spreading

bushily

ˈbu̇-shə-lē 

adverb

bushiness

ˈbu̇-shē-nəs 

noun

Examples of bushy in a Sentence

an animal with a bushy tail

Recent Examples on the Web

With all the hair growing out from his sides, his beard and going up into these bushy tufts at the top. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Hill, a graying seventy-one-year-old with bushy eyebrows, drove me around in an all-terrain vehicle. — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

Max himself was featured on the cover of Life magazine in 1969, his trademark dark, bushy mustache framing a hearty grin. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Yellow starthistle, scientific name Centaurea solstitialis, is a bushy summer-blooming annual, the California Invasive Plant Council said. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing bushy

• bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Rhymes for bushy

• cushy
• pushy

Kids Definition

bushy

adjective

ˈbu̇sh-ē 

bushier; bushiest

1

: overgrown with bushes

2

: resembling a bush : being thick and spreading

a bushy beard

bushiness noun