thorny 音标拼音: [θ'ɔrni]
a . 多刺的,痛苦的
多刺的,痛苦的
thorny adj 1 :
bristling with perplexities ; "
the thorny question of states '
rights "
2 :
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 " [
synonym :
{
barbed }, {
barbellate }, {
briary }, {
briery }, {
bristled },
{
bristly }, {
burred }, {
burry }, {
prickly }, {
setose },
{
setaceous }, {
spiny }, {
thorny }]
Thorny \
Thorn "
y \,
a . [
Compar . {
Thornier };
superl . {
Thorniest }.]
[
Cf .
AS . [
thorn ]
orniht .]
1 .
Full of thorns or spines ;
rough with thorns ;
spiny ;
as ,
a thorny wood ;
a thorny tree ;
a thorny crown .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Like a thorn or thorns ;
hence ,
figuratively ,
troublesome ;
vexatious ;
harassing ;
perplexing . "
The thorny point of bare distress ." --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
The steep and thorny way to heaven . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Thorny rest -
harrow } (
Bot .),
rest -
harrow .
{
Thorny trefoil },
a prickly plant of the genus {
Fagonia }
({
Fagonia Cretica },
etc .).
[
1913 Webster ]
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "
thorny ":
Herculean ,
abstruse ,
acanaceous ,
acanthoid ,
aciculate ,
aculeolate ,
arduous ,
barbed ,
barbellate ,
brambly ,
briery ,
bristly ,
brutal ,
complex ,
complicated ,
controversial ,
critical ,
delicate ,
demanding ,
difficile ,
difficult ,
exacting ,
formidable ,
hairy ,
hard ,
hard -
earned ,
hard -
fought ,
intricate ,
involved ,
jawbreaking ,
knotted ,
knotty ,
laborious ,
mean ,
muricate ,
nasty ,
nettlesome ,
no picnic ,
not easy ,
operose ,
painful ,
pricking ,
prickly ,
pricky ,
problematic ,
rigorous ,
rough ,
rugged ,
set with thorns ,
setaceous ,
setose ,
severe ,
spiculate ,
spiculose ,
spiked ,
spinous ,
spiny ,
steep ,
sticky ,
stinging ,
strenuous ,
tangled ,
thistly ,
ticklish ,
toilsome ,
tough ,
tricky ,
troublesome ,
uphill ,
vexatious ,
wicked ,
worrying
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