thorny

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adjective

1. bristling with perplexities
- the thorny question of states' rights
• Similar to:
difficult, hard
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
• Syn:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled,
bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setose,
setaceous, spiny
• Similar to:
armed
• Derivationally related forms:
thorniness, thorn, spininess (for: spiny), seta (for: setaceous), prickle (for: prickly), prickliness (for: prickly), burr (for: burry), bristliness (for: bristly), bristle (for: bristly), briar (for: briary), barbel (for: barbellate)