- 1. superl. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. Source: opted
- 2. superl. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. Source: opted
- 3. adj. bristling with perplexities Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Source: wordnet
- 5. 1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. 2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc.). Source: webster
- 6. j:100 s. bristling with perplexities Source: ecdict
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