bushier; bushiest
1
: full of or overgrown with bushes
2
: resembling a bush
especially
: being thick and spreading
Examples of bushy in a Sentence
an animal with a bushy tail
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Pinch it back occasionally to keep it bushy and full.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 June 2025
The arrows in the second photo point to the fox's bushy tail and to where the animal's head is, which is pointed down out of sight in the picture.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 9 May 2025
Sporting a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and a world-weary look in his eyes, Pearce finds dimensions both tragic and devious in what could have been merely the stock character of the wily long-term inmate whose isolation has cost him his humanity.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
On Friday, June 6, the actor, 45, shared a video on Instagram debuting a long bushy beard, mustache, and long curly hair.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 7 June 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 June 2025
The arrows in the second photo point to the fox's bushy tail and to where the animal's head is, which is pointed down out of sight in the picture.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 9 May 2025
Sporting a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and a world-weary look in his eyes, Pearce finds dimensions both tragic and devious in what could have been merely the stock character of the wily long-term inmate whose isolation has cost him his humanity.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
On Friday, June 6, the actor, 45, shared a video on Instagram debuting a long bushy beard, mustache, and long curly hair.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 7 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for bushy
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“Bushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushy. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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bushy
adjective
bushier; bushiest
1
: overgrown with bushes
2
: resembling a bush : being thick and spreading
a bushy beard
bushiness
noun
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