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thorny

adjective

1 thorny

Bristling with perplexities.

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; ... show more

Polish: cierniowy, ciernisty

2 thorny

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 ... show more.

Roget 253: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; ... show more

Polish: ciernisty, cierniowy


Moby thesaurus: Herculean, abstruse, acanaceous, acanthoid, aciculate, aculeolate, arduous, barbed, barbellate, brambly, briery, bristly, brutal, complex, complicated, controversial, critical, delicate, demanding, difficile ... show more.

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