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bushy (bo̵os̸hē)

adjective bushi·er, bushi·est

  1. covered or overgrown with bushes
  2. thick and spreading out like a bush a bushy tail

bushy Synonyms

bushy

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bushy Usage Examples

Possessives

sight: While Rahul is right that Syria is definitely in the Bushies ' sights, Iran is a different story altogether.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

keep: You can keep the plants bushy thereafter by regularly pinching out the shoot tips of new growth.

Modifies a noun

  • eyebrow: His hair was snow white, his bushy eyebrows matched.
  • beard: I bet his bushy beard will hard to forge!
  • mustache: He had a bushy, white mustache and a florid face.
  • tail: Then a gray, bushy tail pops up in the middle.
  • brow: I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick look under his bushy brows that I knew of old.
  • shrub: Trouble free, dense, bushy deciduous shrub with handsome dark purple foliage, green on the reverse, on purple stems.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: The discharge from the breakout point became very bushy.
  • rather: He does look dated, unlike the film, as he has rather bushy white hair and a thick tash!
  • really: She has a really bushy tail similar to that of a squirrel!
  • slightly: The short coat lies smooth all over and is slightly bushy at the thighs.
  • particularly: They weren't particularly bushy but they were a higher slope.
  • quite: Gordon still loves playing with everyone, but it has become less physical, and his hair is now getting quite bushy.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: I become bushy of eyebrow, gray of hair, dry of skin, plump of middle.
  • have: Always popular, this small oval fruited variety has bushy weeping habit.