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Having, or covered in, spines or thorns
Difficult or tricky to manage or navigate
Confusing or puzzling
Resembling a spine (spike or bristle) or some aspect of one
Sharp, stabbing or piercing
Covered in hair or bristles
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Adjective
▲
Having, or covered in, spines or thorns
prickly
thorny
barbed
brambly
bristly
spiky
scratchy
spiked
pointed
sharp
briary
thistly
spinous
bristled
pronged
aculeate
spicular
spiculate
spinose
briery
spiniferous
sticky
barbellate
jaggy
muricate
pointy
setaceous
jagged
bristling
stinging
echinate
pricky
burry
spined
echinated
hooked
rough
toothed
notched
snaggy
stiff
arrowlike
serrated
bristling with thorns
sawtooth
sawtoothed
hobnailed
spicate
broken
ragged
uneven
craggy
irregular
denticulate
nicked
scraggy
indented
coarse
bumpy
pebbly
roughened
cleft
scraggly
ridged
rugged
lumpy
unlevel
angular
harsh
crude
unsmooth
scabrous
asperous
saw-edged
more ❯
“Spines at the base of the tongue grind against
spiny
ridges on the palate to masticate food.”
Adjective
▲
Difficult or tricky to manage or navigate
difficult
tricky
delicate
thorny
sensitive
problematic
knotty
ticklish
sticky
tough
prickly
hairy
touchy
problematical
dodgy
catchy
nasty
tricksy
awkward
intricate
complicated
complex
hard
involved
uncertain
convoluted
perplexing
troublesome
controversial
precarious
vexed
risky
taxing
irksome
embarrassing
bothersome
dicey
critical
trying
worrying
upsetting
vexatious
concerning
uncomfortable
baffling
unstable
chancy
fiddly
rocky
volatile
unpleasant
puzzling
nice
contentious
unsteady
formidable
capricious
fickle
temperamental
inconstant
mercurial
dangerous
variable
changeable
touch-and-go
gnarly
nettlesome
unpredictable
loaded
uneasy
paradoxical
harassing
severe
intractable
mystifying
sophisticated
profound
provocative
wicked
heated
rough
like herding cats
catch-22
emotive
divisive
scandalous
subtle
strenuous
hair-trigger
heavy
rugged
painful
laborious
penetrating
searching
operose
discomforting
iffy
quirky
undependable
distressing
disturbing
demanding
arduous
wearisome
challenging
worrisome
troubling
forbidding
daunting
tiresome
burdensome
annoying
onerous
harrowing
grievous
galling
tedious
hazardous
punishing
irritating
niggling
vexing
unsettling
torturous
perturbing
oppressive
uphill
excruciating
grim
inconvenient
agonizing
US
perilous
agonising
UK
exacting
exasperating
harsh
gruelling
UK
grueling
US
tortuous
rigorous
impossible
disquieting
ponderous
bruising
wearying
testing
brutal
backbreaking
ambitious
stressful
exhausting
wearing
fierce
crushing
back-breaking
fatiguing
tormenting
herculean
toilsome
hellish
unsparing
aggravating
alarming
traumatic
killer
effortful
nerve-racking
disagreeable
incommodious
grave
harrying
maddening
dubious
mighty
intense
painstaking
weighty
extreme
colossal
jarring
awful
unforgiving
tiring
pesky
titanic
tight
discomposing
tall
moiling
sweaty
dire
bleak
debilitating
nagging
toilful
serious
cumbersome
draining
troublous
upstream
vigorous
intimidating
unyielding
grinding
sapping
gargantuan
energy-consuming
Herculean
pestiferous
pestilent
plaguy
pestilential
dismaying
bitter
problem
scary
crippling
merciless
unnerving
prohibitive
rankling
anxious-making
immense
unremitting
staggering
gigantic
infuriating
unbearable
intolerable
distressful
knackering
solemn
humiliating
really hard
very hard
infernal
irking
depleting
killing
shattering
messy
compromising
abrasive
riling
cringey
cringeworthy
chafing
carking
nettling
peeving
frustrating
confounded
mean
disconcerting
flustering
unsafe
parlous
ugly
discomfiting
immoderate
dark
rebarbative
cussed
pesty
plaguey
cringe-making
stringent
unfriendly
spartan
hostile
suspect
questionable
imperious
murderous
stiff
hellacious
high-risk
backbreaker
nerve-wracking
easier said than done
slavish
torturesome
drudgy
labored
US
vicious
cruel
laboured
UK
high-pressure
tough going
worksome
savage
scabrous
uphill battle
unendurable
hard-won
fraught with danger
no picnic
marathon
difficile
ominous
insufferable
not easy
ferocious
almighty
kittle
grating
provoking
objectionable
displeasing
treacherous
vulnerable
devilish
wretched
repugnant
thoroughgoing
hefty
discouraging
enraging
lamentable
deplorable
unwelcome
antagonizing
US
demeaning
degrading
devil of a
unsound
threatening
major
afflicting
disappointing
kid-glove
embarrassed
insecure
shaky
untimely
discountenancing
charged
tense
teasing
festering
antipathetic
shameful
unsatisfying
unattractive
antagonising
UK
bewildering
elaborate
incomprehensible
confounding
tickly
high-impact
like getting blood out of a stone
toe-curling
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
unchancy
erratic
fluctuant
fraught
dolorous
bumpy
harrasive
persnickety
unmanageable
itchy
confronting
distressed
afflictive
scratchy
incalculable
pressing
exigent
uncontrollable
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
ungovernable
pick-and-shovel
time-consuming
Augean
unreasonable
incontrollable
exorbitant
excessive
insoluble
unfair
out of control
steep
impossible to cope with
out of hand
infestive
damaging
repressive
more ❯
“Don't mess with him, or you might get yourself into a
spiny
situation.”
Adjective
▲
Confusing or puzzling
perplexing
puzzling
baffling
difficult
strange
mystifying
complicated
odd
complex
weird
peculiar
mysterious
involved
intricate
knotty
inexplicable
impenetrable
hard
thorny
funny
convoluted
bewildering
unfathomable
unaccountable
confusing
ticklish
labyrinthine
enigmatic
Byzantine
confounding
taxing
wildering
paradoxical
befuddling
worrying
disconcerting
mind-bending
difficult to understand
beyond one
elaborate
challenging
incomprehensible
tricky
insoluble
sophisticated
problematical
insolvable
problematic
awkward
gnarly
unanswerable
undecipherable
hairy
tangled
obscure
cryptic
abstruse
inscrutable
unclear
ambiguous
arcane
recondite
opaque
deep
unintelligible
Delphic
equivocal
esoteric
enigmatical
mystic
vague
occult
dark
murky
hidden
nebulous
involute
elliptical
oracular
confused
involuted
double-edged
unexplainable
uncertain
elliptic
profound
mystical
secret
indistinct
sibylline
tortuous
hazy
unknowable
oblique
hard to understand
clear as mud
fathomless
abstract
fuliginous
indefinite
doubtful
beyond comprehension
uncanny
Gordian
dubious
indeterminate
unsolvable
cabalistic
labyrinthian
Daedalian
byzantine
misleading
inexplicit
troublesome
concealed
indecipherable
entangled
daedal
baroque
imprecise
over one's head
questionable
as clear as mud
fiddly
cabbalistic
unexplained
hermetic
veiled
complicate
secretive
elusive
debatable
inexact
serpentine
evasive
surprising
curious
detailed
bizarre
tough
fancy
incognizable
ungraspable
clear as dishwater
hermetical
full of twists and turns
heavy
sphinxlike
inconceivable
subtle
beyond understanding
arguable
tenebrous
foggy
beyond one's grasp
coded
impossible to understand
little known
inconclusive
dense
twisted
unknown
inextricable
gnomic
riddling
really hard
unresolved
circuitous
mind-boggling
interlaced
open to debate
open to argument
astonishing
above your head
rarefied
ill-defined
disorienting
bemusing
queer
unimaginable
deceptive
Greek
inexplainable
bamboozling
unsolved
contradictory
beats me
false
cagey
apocryphal
Delphian
deceitful
indiscernible
mazy
ambivalent
equivocating
prevaricating
winding
unsettled
very hard
amphibological
serious
sophistical
roundabout
blurred
circumlocutory
cumbersome
formidable
two-edged
casuistic
periphrastic
shifty
undetermined
ravelled
UK
drawn-out
Greek to me
mistakable
intangible
long-drawn-out
jumbled
mixed
knotted
muddled
casuistical
arduous
indecisive
shadowy
vexing
rambling
thought-provoking
clouded
raveled
US
fuzzy
open to question
hi-tech
up in the air
mixed up
Daedalean
amazing
stunning
eye-popping
staggering
unintuitive
stupefying
astounding
unnatural
weighty
uncomprehensible
stealthy
inconsistent
ramified
undiscoverable
frustrating
recherché
subjective
unresolvable
teasing
covert
stumping
clandestine
stickling
polysemous
polysemic
polysemantic
inaccessible
mysterial
ineffable
indescribable
undefinable
muddling
untold
beyond you
mazelike
multivocal
indivisible
inseparable
borderline
unconfirmed
trying
fiendish
impossible
full of surprises
hard to follow
blurring
unsettling
suspicious
uninterpretable
unusual
irresolvable
unconcluded
labyrinthial
labyrinthical
labyrinthiform
labyrinthic
labyrinthal
blurry
duplicitous
muddlesome
between the lines
undecided
unascertained
unestablished
unparalleled
extraordinary
freakish
freak
technical
illegible
incredible
illogical
far-out
not easily understood
freaky
fluky
hard to solve
advanced
hard to explain
unexplicit
muzzy
open
disreputable
yet to be decided
without a solution
unable to be solved
spooky
rum
sinuous
operose
strenuous
demanding
daunting
private
unrelatable
ornate
inner
rococo
heterogeneous
multifaceted
multifarious
variegated
nuanced
unheard-of
unwonted
uncommon
acroamatic
orphic
magical
erudite
high-tech
can of worms
maze-like
gray
US
grey
UK
all Greek to someone
double Dutch
too hard to understand
too difficult to understand
indissoluble
impossible to separate
off the wall
sketchy
woolly
UK
bleary
cloudy
all Greek to you
indirect
remote
imperfect
dim
wooly
US
weak
obfuscated
slippery
fallacious
cunning
shuffling
devious
spurious
specious
delusive
dissembling
delusory
wrong
unsure
inaccurate
illusory
deceiving
stonewalling
elusory
noncommittal
mock
beguiling
deluding
pseudo
distorted
non-committal
disingenuous
unpredictable
unforeseeable
indistinguishable
speculative
incalculable
plotty
undefined
iffy
long-winded
dicey
dodgy
misrepresentative
unstraightforward
distracting
demagogic
catchy
in the balance
in doubt
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Resembling a spine (spike or bristle) or some aspect of one
spinelike
bristlelike
Adjective
▲
Sharp, stabbing or piercing
lancinating
honed
edged
jagged
pointed
keen
cuspidate
peaked
sharpened
whetted
acute
serrated
acuate
aciculate
acuminate
acuminous
apical
barbed
briery
cuspate
fine
horned
needlelike
piercing
spiked
unblunted
tipped
pointy
knifelike
pronged
gnawing
prickly
salient
shooting
spiky
splintery
stabbing
stinging
tapered
tapering
thorny
tined
knife-edged
keen-edged
needle-pointed
razor-sharp
sharp-edged
ground fine
cutting
stropped
ground
trenchant
razor-edged
spired
edgy
knife-like
penetrating
razor
sharp
fine-edged
razor-like
bright
piked
acicular
conical
arrowlike
conoid
sagittate
mucronate
sagittal
conic
lanceolate
subulate
cornered
aculeate
cusped
spearlike
razor sharp
steely
cone-shaped
needle-like
spear-like
sharp-cornered
spear-shaped
wedge-shaped
V-shaped
well-honed
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Covered in hair or bristles
bristly
rough
hairy
stubbly
bearded
hirsute
bewhiskered
unshaven
whiskered
brushy
coarse
cottony
fleecy
furred
furry
fuzzy
hispid
scratchy
shaggy
silky
unshorn
whiskery
woolly
UK
wooly
US
prickly
aristate
barbellate
chaetophorous
echinate
setaceous
setal
setarious
setiferous
setose
sharp
wiry
bushy
downy
fluffy
pilose
flocculent
tufted
pileous
long-haired
lanate
thick
shrubby
bristling
hair-covered
nappy
stiff
pappose
brushlike
jungly
crinigerous
crinite
leafy
uncut
floccose
pubescent
villous
piliferous
feathery
unsheared
ruffled
brambly
tousled
tangled
dishevelled
UK
pilous
soft
disheveled
US
covered with fur
laniferous
lanigerous
crinose
wool-bearing
scrubby
lanose
velvety
cushiony
satiny
silken
smooth
shock-headed
barbed
goateed
barbate
stubbled
awny
beardy
beavered
unruly
luxuriant
spreading
wavy
curly
exuberant
heavy
rumpled
fringed
unkempt
full
disordered
tough
ropy
fibrous
kinky
plumate
velutinous
plumose
brushed
linty
flossy
featherlike
airy
plumed
feathered
plumy
light
puffy
velvetlike
fine
silklike
flimsy
satin
thin
snowy
delicate
comfortable
comfy
cozy
US
snug
unwrinkled
sleek
frictionless
non-abrasive
nonabrasive
cosy
UK
like a baby's bottom
suede-effect
woollen
UK
wool
woolen
US
made of wool
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spiny anteaters
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spiny bear's breech
spiny bitter gourd
spiny dogfish
spinules
spinule
spinsters
spinsterly
spinsterlike
spinsterhoods
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