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bristle has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles
“bristling leaves”
react in an offended or angry manner
“He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program”
a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for bristle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.