Thorny

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  • adjective. Having many thorns or abounding in thorn-covered vegetation.
  • adjective. Spiny or prickly.
  • adjective. Controversial, problematic, or vexatious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Abounding in or covered with thorns; producing thorns; prickly; spiny.
  • Characteristic of or resembling a thorn; sharp; irritating; painful.
  • In zoology, spinous; prickly; echinate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny.
  • adjective. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
  • adjective. rest-harrow.
  • adjective. a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. having thorns or spines
  • adjective. troublesome or vexatious
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. bristling with perplexities
  • adjective. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
    • Word Usage
    "Far more thorny is the question of whether casual sex, or any sex outside marriage, is emotionally harmful."
    cross-reference
    thorny lobster  thorny oyster  
    Equivalent
    armed  difficult  hard  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Horney  Sigourney  corny  horny  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    brittle  bushy  evergreen  gnarled  hazel  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Herculean  abstruse  acanaceous  acanthoid  aciculate  
    variant
    thornier  thorniest  
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