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spiny
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Having, or covered in, spines or thorns
Difficult or tricky to manage or navigate
Confusing or puzzling
Resembling a knife or its effects
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
bristling
jagged
echinate
stinging
pricky
rough
spined
burry
echinated
setiferous
chaetophorous
setigerous
toothed
notched
snaggy
bristling with thorns
serrated
sawtooth
sawtoothed
stiff
hobnailed
bristlelike
spinelike
aciculate
shaggy
hairy
furry
fleecy
hirsute
woolly
UK
unshorn
wooly
US
fuzzy
silky
cottony
brushy
furred
stubbly
bewhiskered
coarse
unshaven
bearded
whiskered
hispid
whiskery
wiry
setal
setose
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
taxing
risky
irksome
bothersome
embarrassing
critical
dicey
trying
vexatious
worrying
upsetting
concerning
baffling
unstable
uncomfortable
rocky
chancy
volatile
fiddly
unpleasant
dangerous
puzzling
nice
unsteady
capricious
fickle
temperamental
inconstant
mercurial
variable
changeable
formidable
contentious
touch-and-go
gnarly
nettlesome
unpredictable
loaded
iffy
paradoxical
uneasy
rough
harassing
severe
intractable
mystifying
sophisticated
profound
strenuous
provocative
wicked
heavy
quirky
undependable
rugged
heated
painful
laborious
like herding cats
catch-22
emotive
divisive
scandalous
operose
subtle
discomforting
hair-trigger
penetrating
searching
hazardous
perilous
grievous
unsafe
parlous
distressing
arduous
onerous
treacherous
disturbing
high-risk
fraught with danger
unsound
challenging
grim
harrowing
insecure
worrisome
wearisome
traumatic
nerve-racking
tight
punishing
threatening
excruciating
burdensome
dubious
troubling
forbidding
vexing
alarming
grave
demanding
stressful
wearing
exhausting
daunting
exacting
harsh
brutal
gruelling
UK
oppressive
testing
grueling
US
tiring
hellish
cruel
weighty
bitter
awful
bleak
dire
fraught
shaky
serious
venturesome
exasperating
tormenting
unsettling
disquieting
draining
annoying
tedious
sapping
toilsome
perturbing
back-breaking
crushing
rigorous
disagreeable
vulnerable
tense
speculative
erratic
dismaying
niggling
exposed
unnerving
harrying
frustrating
pressured
scary
fatiguing
torturous
galling
unchancy
tiresome
hot
agonizing
US
agonising
UK
anxious-making
nerve-wracking
playing with fire
humiliating
compromising
disconcerting
cringey
flustering
discomposing
cringeworthy
discomfiting
reckless
dark
menacing
irritating
inconvenient
unhealthy
unfriendly
suspect
questionable
spartan
hostile
unreliable
jeopardizing
US
daredevil
death-defying
cringe-making
anxious
incommodious
jeopardising
UK
breakneck
enervating
on thin ice
agitating
hectic
hanging by a thread
compromisable
tottery
moiling
killer
daring
backbreaking
easier said than done
slavish
torturesome
unendurable
killing
wearying
shattering
knackering
hard-won
toilful
drudgy
intolerable
sweaty
labored
US
immense
no picnic
tall
extreme
upstream
energy-consuming
vicious
marathon
difficile
laboured
UK
vigorous
impossible
tortuous
cumbersome
crippling
high-pressure
Russian roulette
unsparing
prohibitive
anxiety-ridden
unremitting
really hard
tough going
problem
fierce
intimidating
Herculean
ominous
insufferable
bruising
merciless
titanic
mighty
dangersome
ponderous
gargantuan
effortful
not easy
unbearable
unforgiving
uphill
staggering
colossal
unyielding
herculean
ambitious
debilitating
jarring
intense
worksome
ugly
solemn
painstaking
distressful
very hard
ferocious
almighty
grinding
gigantic
savage
scabrous
depleting
uphill battle
unsettled
fluctuant
tender
incalculable
kid-glove
demeaning
degrading
embarrassed
untimely
discountenancing
murderous
stiff
hardhanded
aggravating
inhuman
searing
charged
shonky
shameful
a stinker of a
pestilent
exigent
endangered
jeopardous
toe-curling
defenceless
UK
defenseless
US
tickly
unsure
dolorous
bumpy
long shot
on slippery ground
wide-open
out on a limb
doubtful
itchy
confronting
distressed
afflictive
scratchy
unknown
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
unclear
cliffhanging
in the balance
in danger
in jeopardy
nagging
harmful
lethal
haphazard
troublous
emotionally draining
high-impact
backbreaker
like getting blood out of a stone
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
bizarre
curious
arcane
uncanny
recondite
unusual
queer
deep
opaque
unintelligible
Delphic
offbeat
equivocal
esoteric
quaint
mystic
enigmatical
quirky
occult
extraordinary
eccentric
outlandish
abnormal
unexpected
dark
dubious
murky
vague
freakish
anomalous
uncommon
atypical
erratic
crazy
involute
whacky
wild
hidden
nebulous
kooky
kookie
queerish
remarkable
elliptical
out of the ordinary
wacky
oracular
unconventional
unfamiliar
different
freak
far-out
bizarro
rum
screwy
deviant
funky
off-kilter
weirdo
kinky
involuted
double-edged
questionable
oddball
irregular
elliptic
profound
aberrant
mystical
cranky
secret
way-out
spaced-out
off-the-wall
outré
out-of-the-way
confused
tortuous
incongruous
unnatural
unexplainable
oblique
hard to understand
sibylline
abstract
singular
fuliginous
unique
doubtful
suspicious
Gordian
clear as mud
hazy
unco
unsolvable
unknowable
uncertain
cabalistic
labyrinthian
unorthodox
byzantine
off the wall
indistinct
rare
eerie
misleading
Daedalian
uncustomary
wacko
freaky
spooky
entangled
fathomless
beyond comprehension
troublesome
indecipherable
concealed
daedal
baroque
indefinite
off-centre
fantastic
out of the way
indeterminate
surprising
inconceivable
zany
fishy
unaccustomed
creepy
as clear as mud
fiddly
ludicrous
ridiculous
cabbalistic
over one's head
unexplained
hermetic
veiled
complicate
exceptional
secretive
idiosyncratic
untypical
serpentine
inexplicit
evasive
left-field
detailed
unwonted
twisted
tough
fancy
foreign
clear as dishwater
hermetical
elusive
full of twists and turns
heavy
sphinxlike
irrational
subtle
illogical
incognizable
imprecise
aberrated
inextricable
tenebrous
debatable
foggy
absurd
ungraspable
coded
little known
inconclusive
dense
gnomic
riddling
really hard
droll
unheard of
circuitous
unimaginable
mind-boggling
interlaced
above your head
beyond one's grasp
out there
rarefied
stupefying
astonishing
inexplainable
unsolved
bemusing
unparalleled
deceptive
disorienting
surreal
beyond understanding
bamboozling
contradictory
false
mazy
cagey
apocryphal
Delphian
deceitful
ambivalent
arguable
uncharacteristic
off-key
equivocating
prevaricating
winding
impossible to understand
inexact
ravelled
UK
very hard
amphibological
serious
unknown
sophistical
novel
outre
roundabout
blurred
circumlocutory
teasing
cumbersome
out of place
formidable
two-edged
casuistic
daggy
periphrastic
shifty
drawn-out
Greek to me
exceeding
especial
open to debate
mistakable
open to argument
long-drawn-out
extraordinaire
jumbled
mixed
knotted
preternatural
dilly
phenomenal
muddled
casuistical
Greek
arduous
incongruent
vexing
rambling
thought-provoking
raveled
US
beats me
fuzzy
hi-tech
weird and wonderful
mixed up
Daedalean
intriguing
unbelievable
radical
indescribable
undefinable
stealthy
weighty
subjective
rummy
ramified
inconsistent
out of the common
frustrating
recherché
indivisible
inaccessible
mysterial
covert
stumping
clandestine
stickling
out-there
polysemous
polysemic
polysemantic
indissoluble
muddling
untold
whimsical
beyond you
multivocal
borderline
grotesque
unresolvable
comical
trying
fiendish
impossible
hard to follow
full of surprises
inseparable
unpredictable
offhand
plotty
blurring
unsettling
uncomprehensible
shady
unthinkable
cool
uninterpretable
blurry
duplicitous
irresolvable
unresolved
dubitable
disputable
disquieting
shaky
doubtable
dodgy
suspect
long-winded
muddlesome
between the lines
without a solution
technical
indecisive
illegible
incredible
unintuitive
fanciful
fantastical
foolish
cockamamie
nonsensical
insane
unreal
preposterous
riddlelike
unexplicit
muzzy
clouded
open
disreputable
flakey
US
unhinged
touched
demented
mad
unbalanced
flaky
UK
unable to be solved
not easily understood
unrelatable
hard to solve
advanced
hard to explain
avant-garde
breaking new ground
sinuous
operose
strenuous
demanding
daunting
private
ornate
inner
rococo
heterogeneous
multifaceted
multifarious
variegated
nuanced
acroamatic
orphic
magical
erudite
disconsonant
inapropos
irrelevant
disparate
incoherent
all Greek to someone
double Dutch
too hard to understand
too difficult to understand
new
astounding
interesting
unexplored
unordinary
untried
alien
newfangled
exotic
way out
off-beat
all Greek to you
high-tech
can of worms
maze-like
gray
US
grey
UK
off the rails
very different
bugged out
impossible to separate
fluky
random
obfuscated
unheard-of
labyrinthic
mazelike
sketchy
woolly
UK
bleary
cloudy
fallacious
remote
imperfect
dim
shadowy
wooly
US
weak
ill-defined
spurious
indirect
specious
delusive
delusory
slippery
wrong
inaccurate
illusory
deceiving
mock
cunning
shuffling
devious
beguiling
deluding
dissembling
pseudo
distorted
disingenuous
intangible
stonewalling
elusory
noncommittal
misrepresentative
unstraightforward
indiscernible
non-committal
distracting
demagogic
catchy
anomalistic
scarce
nonstandard
out of line
off-base
off-colour
UK
off-color
US
like nothing on earth
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Resembling a knife or its effects
knifelike
sharpened
honed
whetted
pointed
jagged
cuspidate
edged
serrated
peaked
keen
spiked
acuminate
unblunted
aciculate
tipped
acute
pointy
acuminous
cuspate
acuate
fine
apical
barbed
briery
horned
needlelike
piercing
pronged
gnawing
prickly
salient
shooting
spiky
splintery
stabbing
stinging
tapered
tapering
thorny
tined
lancinating
razor-sharp
sharp-edged
knife-edged
keen-edged
needle-pointed
ground fine
cutting
stropped
ground
trenchant
razor-edged
spired
edgy
knife-like
penetrating
razor
sharp
acicular
razor-like
piked
fine-edged
needle-shaped
acute-angled
conical
arrowlike
conoid
sagittate
mucronate
sagittal
conic
lanceolate
subulate
cornered
aculeate
cusped
spearlike
spear-like
needle-like
wedge-shaped
cone-shaped
sharp-cornered
spear-shaped
V-shaped
more ❯
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