|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

thorny

DEFINITIONS OF: thorny

1

adj bristling with perplexities

“the thorny question of states' rights”
Synonyms
difficult, hard
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Synonyms:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny
armed
(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES