spiky

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
2. adjective Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).
3. adjective Having one or more spikes; spiny.
4. adjective Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
5. adjective Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.

   a spiky personality

6. adjective Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.

   a spiky personality

7. adjective Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
8. adjective Excessively high church (“practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).

Similar words

peaky high-pitched high acerbic spikey spiked spined spikelike spical spinelike

Often followed by

hair and leaves black with grass green plants blond

Word family

spikey spikier spikiest spikily spikiness spikinesses