Having hair on the cheeks and chin.
synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery.
Roget 253:
sharp,
keen;
acute;
acicular,
aciform†;
aculeated†,
acuminated†;
pointed;
tapering;
conical,
pyramidal;
mucronate†,
mucronated†;
spindle shaped,
needle shaped;
spiked,
spiky,
ensiform†,
peaked,
salient;
cusped,
cuspidate,
cuspidated†;
cornute†,
cornuted†,
cornicultate†;
prickly;
spiny,
spinous†,
spicular;
thorny,
bristling,
muricated†,
pectinated†,
studded,
thistly,
briary†;
craggy
etc.
(rough)
256;
snaggy,
digitated†,
two-edged,
fusiform [Micro.];
dentiform†,
denticulated;
toothed;
odontoid†;
starlike;
stellated†,
stelliform†;
sagittate†,
sagittiform†;
arrowheaded†;
arrowy†,
barbed,
spurred.
acinaciform;
apiculate†,
apiculated†;
aristate†,
awned,
awny†,
bearded,
calamiform†,
cone-shaped,
coniform†,
crestate†,
echinate†,
gladiate†;
lanceolate†,
lanciform;
awl,
awl-shaped,
lance-shaped,
awl-shaped,
scimitar-shaped,
sword-shaped;
setarious†,
spinuliferous†,
subulate†,
tetrahedral,
xiphoid†.
cutting;
sharp edged,
knife edged;
sharp as a razor,
keen as a razor;
sharp as a needle,
sharp as a tack;
sharpened
etc.
v.;
set
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Roget 256:
rough,
uneven,
scabrous,
scaly,
knotted;
rugged,
rugose†,
rugous†;
knurly†;
asperous†,
crisp,
salebrous†,
gnarled,
unpolished,
unsmooth†,
roughhewn†;
craggy,
cragged;
crankling†,
scraggy;
prickly
etc.
(sharp)
253;
arborescent
etc.
242†;
leafy,
well-wooded;
feathery;
plumose,
plumigerous†;
laciniate†,
laciniform†,
laciniose†;
pappose†;
pileous†,
pilose†;
trichogenous†,
trichoid [Med.];
tufted,
fimbriated,
hairy,
ciliated,
filamentous,
hirsute;
crinose†,
crinite†;
bushy,
hispid,
villous,
pappous†,
bearded,
pilous†,
shaggy,
shagged;
fringed,
befringed†;
setous†,
setose†,
setaceous;
like quills upon the fretful porcupine"
[Hamlet];
rough as a nutmeg grater,
rough as a bear.
downy,
velvety,
flocculent,
woolly;
lanate†,
lanated†;
lanuginous†,
lanuginose†;
tomentose†;
fluffy.
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Polish: brodaty