thorny
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- bristling with perplexities
- "the thorny question of states' rights"
- having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Adj
- Having thorns or spines.
- Troublesome or vexatious.
- Aloof and irritable.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.
Synonyms
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny
Scrabble Score: 12
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