Adjective: spiky (spikier,spikiest) spI-kee
- Having or covered with sharp points
"The spiky cactus needed careful handling"
- Having or as if having especially high-pitched spots
"absence of spiky highs and beefed-up bass";
- peaky
- Very irritable
"spiky exchanges between the White House and the press";
- bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish
Derived forms: spikiest, spikier
See also: high, high-pitched, ill-natured
Encyclopedia: Spiky