Synonyms of bristling

bristling 1 of 2

adjective

as in bristly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bristly
• seething
• smouldering
• boiling
• smoldering
• passionate
• sizzling
• cross
• huffy
• burning
• vitriolic
• antagonistic
• virulent
• wrought (up)
• worked up
• malevolent
• angry
• indignant
• acrimonious
• spiteful
• acrid
• ranting
• rancorous
• vengeful
• antipathetic
• ballistic
• embittered
• vindictive
• irate
• inimical
• stormy
• apoplectic
• enraged
• resentful
• livid
• steaming
• inflamed
• incensed
• infuriated
• wrathful
• angered
• fuming
• raving
• foaming
• furious
• outraged
• rabid
• choleric
• distant
• enflamed
• unpleasant
• bitter
• sulky
• icy
• mad
• sore
• disagreeable
• riled
• rankled
• unfriendly
• fretful
• peevish
• piqued
• ireful
• testy
• exasperated
• disapproving
• wroth
• snappish
• irascible
• antisocial
• hopping
• perturbed
• petulant
• aggravated
• roiled
• bilious
• dyspeptic
• frigid
• churlish
• shirty
• cheesed off
• cantankerous
• pugnacious
• irritable
• belligerent
• inflammable
• cold
• touchy
• ill-tempered
• annoyed
• ticked
• grouchy
• teed off
• horn-mad
• infuriate
• ornery
• querulous
• quarrelsome
• hot
• grumpy
• crabby
• cool
• steamed up
• soreheaded
• sorehead
• contentious
• disputatious
• fussy
• contrary
• cranky
• bearish
• argumentative
• ill-humored
• riley
• quick-tempered
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• delighted
• pleased
• accommodating
• agreeable
• amenable
• friendly
• cordial
• sympathetic
• complaisant
• content
• obliging
• amicable
• happy
• angerless
• satisfied
• tolerant
• calm
• placid
• kind
• empathetic
• sweet
• pleasant
• understanding
• amiable
• serene
• genial
• tranquil
• peaceable
• good-natured
• pacific
• affable
• easygoing
• unembittered
• good-tempered

bristling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bristle

1

as in bursting

to be copiously supplied

a recent college grad thrilled to be starting a new life in a city bristling with possibilities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bursting
• buzzing
• bulging
• brimming
• humming
• teeming
• swarming
• abounding
• overflowing
• crawling
• pullulating
• bustling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lacking
• wanting
• needing

2

as in storming

to express one's anger usually violently

the man bristled at the accusation, and threatened to file a lawsuit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• storming
• raging
• fuming
• running amuck
• steaming
• rampaging
• blustering
• running amok
• smouldering
• fulminating
• making a scene
• seething
• raving
• foaming
• smoldering
• ranting
• fretting
• flaring (up)
• carrying on
• stewing
• flipping (out)
• burning
• taking on
• blowing up
• chafing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• containing
• soothing
• restraining
• collecting
• composing
• stifling
• checking
• suppressing
• curbing
• smothering
• swallowing
• strangling
• subduing
• repressing
• choking (back)
• allaying
• tempering
• pacifying
• appeasing
• moderating
• reining
• cooling
• easing
• pocketing
• relaxing
• settling
• quieting
• calming
• toning (down)
• quelling
• hushing
• letting up
• stilling