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1. (adj.) thorny
full of or characterized by thorns; prickly.
2. thorny
thornlike.
3. thorny
painful; vexatious:
a thorny predicament.
4. thorny
full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points:
a thorny question.
Etymology: (bef. 1000)
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| Definition of 'thorny' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) thorny
bristling with perplexities
"the thorny question of states' rights"
2. (adj) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
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"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. thorny
full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown
2. thorny
like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing
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Sense: full of or covered with thorns
a thorny branch.
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 Afrikaans: doringagtig |
 Arabic: شائِك |
 Bulgarian: бодлив |
 Brazilian: espinhento |
 Czech: trnitý |
 German: dornig |
 Danish: tornet |
 Greek: αγκαθωτός |
 Spanish: espinoso |
 Estonian: okkaline |
 Farsi: تیغ دار |
 Finnish: piikikäs |
 French: épineux |
 Hebrew: קוֹצָנִי |
 Hindi: कांटेदार |
 Croatian: trnovit, bodljikav |
 Hungarian: tüskés |
 Indonesian: berduri |
 Icelandic: þyrnóttur |
 Italian: spinoso |
 Japanese: とげだらけの |
 Korean: 가시가 많은 |
 Lithuanian: spygliuotas, dygus |
 Latvian: ērkšķains; dzelkšņains |
 Malay: berduri |
 Dutch: doornachtig |
 Norwegian: tornet, pigget |
 Polish: kolczasty |
 Persian: تیغ دار |
 Pashto: اغزن، ازغن |
 Portuguese: espinhento |
 Romanian: cu spini |
 Russian: колючий |
 Slovak: tŕni(s)tý |
 Slovenian: trnov |
 Serbian: trnovit |
 Swedish: törnig, taggig |
 Thai: มีหนามมาก |
 Turkish: dikenli |
 Taiwanese: 多刺的 |
 Ukrainian: колючий |
 Urdu: کانٹے دار |
 Vietnamese: có gai |
 Chinese: 多刺的 |
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