bushy Definition
bushy (bo̵os̸h′ē)
adjective bush′i·er, bush′i·est
- covered or overgrown with bushes
- thick and spreading out like a bush a bushy tail
bushy Synonyms
bushy
modif.
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
Browse dictionary entries near bushy
- ‹ bushwhack
- ‹ bushwa
- ‹ bushtit
- ‹ bushranger
- ‹ bushmaster
- ‹ bushman
- ‹ bushing
- ‹ bushiness
- ‹ Bushido
- ‹ bushhammer

