brushy

¹ American  

[bruhsh-ee] / ˈbrʌʃ i /

adjective

brushier, brushiest

1. resembling a brush, especially in roughness or shagginess.

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brushy ² American  

[bruhsh-ee] / ˈbrʌʃ i /

adjective

brushier, brushiest

1. covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.

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brushy ¹ British  

adjective

1. like a brush; thick and furry

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brushy ² British  

/ ˈbrʌʃɪ /

adjective

1. covered or overgrown with brush

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Other Word Forms

• brushiness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of brushy¹

First recorded in 1680–90; brush ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of brushy²

First recorded in 1650–60; brush ² + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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brushy brushier brushiest

By the end of the decade, though, he’d shifted to flatter, less brushy scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Both erupted on 7 January as the region saw a strong wind event, making the small blazes in brushy, mountainous areas hard to contain.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025

Without burning, would the landscape grow so brushy that it would not be able to feed as many of them?

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

After eight days, a volunteer spotted Johnson-Barr’s body in a brushy hollow outside the city.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023

The fox’s heartbeat climbed and the brushy hairs of his tail lifted.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Even before the injury, however, he had been moving toward a brushier, more expressive and more colorful way of painting.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

The strongly geometric forms of the early painting evolved into looser, brushier images that teased the idea of figuration.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

All about the place the straightest and brushiest alders had been cut down, those usually selected being at least ten or twelve feet in height.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull

Loud voices, and then thick clouds of yellow dust, coming from behind the highest and brushiest line of the embankment, attested to the truth of Jean's observation, and also to a reckless disregard of danger.

From To the Last Man by Zane Grey

Then the cunning beast chose all the lowest and brushiest trees to run under, whose twigs and thorns, like thick besoms, lashed and scratched and scraped his rider.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare