Thorny
['θɔːnɪ] or ['θɔrni]
Definition
(adj.) bristling with perplexities; 'the thorny question of states' rights' .
Typist: Serena--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
(superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Spiny, spinose, spinous, prickly, briery.[2]. Pricking, sharp, pointed.[3]. Troublesome, vexatious, annoying, harassing, perplexing.
Typed by Hector
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spiny, prickly, harassing, troublesome
Typist: Rodger
Examples
- This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- All trees are protected by nature; some are protected from bugs eating their leaves, by other bugs eating up these bugs; other trees are protected by having a thorny or bristly bark. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the path of early reasoners is beset by thorny entanglements, and he will not proceed a step without first clearing the ground. Plato. The Republic.
- Come, Jo, don't be thorny. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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