spiny as an adjective: - 1
- 2
spiny
adjective
1 spiny
2 spiny
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, thorny ... show more.
Roget 253:
sharp,
keen;
acute;
acicular,
aciform†;
aculeated†,
acuminated†;
pointed;
tapering;
conical,
pyramidal;
mucronate†,
mucronated†;
spindle shaped,
needle shaped;
spiked,
spiky,
ensiform†,
peaked,
salient;
cusped,
cuspidate,
cuspidated†;
cornute†,
cornuted†,
cornicultate†;
prickly;
spiny,
spinous†,
spicular;
thorny,
bristling,
muricated†,
pectinated†,
studded,
thistly,
briary†;
craggy
etc.
(rough)
256;
snaggy,
digitated†,
two-edged,
fusiform [Micro.];
dentiform†,
denticulated;
toothed;
odontoid†;
starlike;
stellated†,
stelliform†;
sagittate†,
sagittiform†;
arrowheaded†;
arrowy†,
barbed,
spurred.
acinaciform;
apiculate†,
apiculated†;
aristate†,
awned,
awny†,
bearded,
calamiform†,
cone-shaped,
coniform†,
crestate†,
echinate†,
gladiate†;
lanceolate†,
lanciform;
awl,
awl-shaped,
lance-shaped,
awl-shaped,
scimitar-shaped,
sword-shaped;
setarious†,
spinuliferous†,
subulate†,
tetrahedral,
xiphoid†.
cutting;
sharp edged,
knife edged;
sharp as a razor,
keen as a razor;
sharp as a needle,
sharp as a tack;
sharpened
etc.
v.;
set
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Polish: ciernisty, cierniowy
Moby thesaurus: Herculean, abstruse, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arduous, barbed, brutal, complex, cornuted, critical, cusped, cuspidate, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hispid, horned, horny, intricate, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, mean, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, nettlesome, no picnic, not easy, operose, pointed, prickly, pronged, rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, steep, strenuous, tapered, tapering, thorny, ticklish, tined, toilsome, toothed, tough, tricky, unbated, uphill, wicked ... show more.
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