THORNY

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

(adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; “a horse with a short bristly mane”; “bristly shrubs”; “burred fruits”; “setaceous whiskers”

thorny

(adjective) bristling with perplexities; “the thorny question of states’ rights”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

thorny (comparative thornier, superlative thorniest)

having thorns or spines

(figuratively) troublesome or vexatious

aloof and irritable

Anagrams

• rhyton

Source: Wiktionary

Thorn"y, a. [Compar. Thornier; superl. Thorniest.] Etym: [Cf. AS. þorniht.]

1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow.

– Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc.).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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