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What is another word for
thorny
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Having many thorns or thorn bushes
Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble
Confusing or puzzling
Dangerous or perilous in nature
Sharp, stabbing or piercing
Tending to find fault or raise petty objections
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▲
Adjective
▲
Having many thorns or thorn bushes
prickly
spiky
spiny
barbed
bristly
pointed
sharp
spinous
brambly
scratchy
spined
thistly
briary
spinose
arrowlike
briery
bristling
spiked
stinging
bristling with thorns
bristled
pronged
spiculate
spicular
pointy
barbellate
jagged
aculeate
setaceous
muricate
burry
hooked
rough
echinated
stiff
echinate
pricky
toothed
notched
snaggy
serrated
sawtooth
sawtoothed
spiniferous
sticky
jaggy
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 ❯
“Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the
thorny
branches.”
Adjective
▲
Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble
difficult
ticklish
tough
problematic
tricky
troublesome
trying
awkward
delicate
knotty
prickly
sticky
irksome
upsetting
worrying
controversial
vexatious
bothersome
dodgy
hard
taxing
catchy
complex
complicated
concerning
convoluted
hairy
intricate
involved
nasty
problematical
sensitive
spiny
touchy
tricksy
unpleasant
harassing
vexed
baffling
formidable
nettlesome
perplexing
severe
distressing
precarious
dicey
rough
disturbing
demanding
arduous
wearisome
challenging
uncomfortable
worrisome
uncertain
painful
troubling
forbidding
daunting
embarrassing
tiresome
burdensome
annoying
onerous
harrowing
grievous
chancy
risky
galling
laborious
tedious
hazardous
heavy
strenuous
critical
punishing
dangerous
irritating
niggling
vexing
iffy
unsettling
torturous
perturbing
oppressive
uphill
excruciating
grim
inconvenient
agonizing
US
operose
perilous
gnarly
discomforting
agonising
UK
exacting
unpredictable
exasperating
harsh
gruelling
UK
grueling
US
tortuous
rigorous
impossible
disquieting
ponderous
bruising
rugged
wearying
testing
brutal
backbreaking
ambitious
stressful
exhausting
wearing
fierce
crushing
back-breaking
fatiguing
tormenting
unstable
herculean
toilsome
rocky
puzzling
hellish
unsparing
aggravating
alarming
traumatic
killer
effortful
volatile
nerve-racking
disagreeable
incommodious
touch-and-go
grave
harrying
maddening
dubious
mighty
intense
painstaking
weighty
extreme
colossal
fiddly
jarring
awful
unforgiving
uneasy
tiring
pesky
titanic
tight
discomposing
tall
moiling
sweaty
dire
bleak
debilitating
nagging
toilful
serious
cumbersome
draining
troublous
upstream
vigorous
intimidating
unyielding
grinding
sapping
gargantuan
wicked
energy-consuming
Herculean
pestiferous
pestilent
plaguy
pestilential
capricious
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
nice
abrasive
riling
contentious
unsteady
cringey
cringeworthy
chafing
carking
nettling
peeving
frustrating
confounded
temperamental
mercurial
changeable
inconstant
fickle
variable
loaded
mean
disconcerting
flustering
unsafe
parlous
ugly
discomfiting
immoderate
intractable
mystifying
emotive
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
paradoxical
catch-22
profound
sophisticated
provocative
kittle
subtle
heated
grating
provoking
objectionable
displeasing
treacherous
vulnerable
devilish
divisive
scandalous
wretched
repugnant
like herding cats
thoroughgoing
hefty
discouraging
enraging
lamentable
deplorable
unwelcome
antagonizing
US
undependable
quirky
searching
penetrating
demeaning
degrading
devil of a
unsound
threatening
major
afflicting
disappointing
kid-glove
embarrassed
hair-trigger
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
offensive
bad
unpalatable
unpleasing
distasteful
agitating
discommoding
uncongenial
unsavory
US
unsavoury
UK
terrible
dreadful
unlovely
rotten
yukky
yucky
disgusting
horrid
inopportune
revolting
gross
inexpedient
repellent
abhorrent
unseasonable
nauseating
detestable
discommodious
disadvantageous
unsuitable
destructive
miserable
invidious
odious
lousy
sour
unhandy
unfortunate
unwieldy
icky
inhuman
hurtful
detrimental
searing
boring
caustic
negative
bedevilling
UK
unamusing
antagonistic
punchable
repulsive
embittering
unhelpful
poignant
horrible
bedeviling
US
sore
obnoxious
disruptive
execrable
appalling
hateful
abominable
undermining
disobliging
invalidating
contrary
adverse
obstructive
ruthless
relentless
chilling
gnawing
anxious
disparaging
discrediting
derogatory
grody
incommoding
inappropriate
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
unrelenting
hardhanded
austere
enervating
pressured
corrosive
hectic
gut-wrenching
anxiety-ridden
ill-timed
accursed
acid
plaguing
punitive
shocking
vile
foul
harmful
unappealing
acute
goading
insulting
crashing
injurious
sickening
fearful
heartbreaking
inflammatory
incendiary
affronting
heart-rending
rancid
agitational
inflaming
overtaxing
overpowering
unhappy
heartrending
tragic
sad
emotionally draining
agitative
remorseless
mortifying
great
in-your-face
intemperate
inclement
calamitous
off-putting
hard-hearted
remote
prejudicial
stinging
hurting
aching
throbbing
aggressive
sharp
piercing
raw
sinister
biting
violent
tender
dirty
ghastly
frightful
filthy
menacing
inflamed
undesirable
burning
quarrelsome
eye-watering
direful
achy
minacious
pugnacious
irritated
bellicose
tingly
keen
smarting
superincumbent
a nuisance
an imposition
more ❯
“Yet all of these
thorny
questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority.”
Adjective
▲
Confusing or puzzling
perplexing
puzzling
baffling
difficult
strange
mystifying
complicated
odd
complex
weird
peculiar
mysterious
involved
intricate
knotty
inexplicable
impenetrable
hard
funny
convoluted
bewildering
unfathomable
unaccountable
confusing
ticklish
labyrinthine
enigmatic
Byzantine
confounding
taxing
wildering
paradoxical
spiny
befuddling
worrying
disconcerting
mind-bending
difficult to understand
beyond one
elaborate
tangled
tricky
sophisticated
abstruse
undecipherable
obscure
recondite
inscrutable
involute
entangled
involuted
problematical
tortuous
incomprehensible
labyrinthian
byzantine
Daedalian
detailed
Gordian
deep
troublesome
fancy
fiddly
cryptic
full of twists and turns
baroque
daedal
confused
abstract
unclear
tough
serpentine
esoteric
fathomless
mind-boggling
profound
interlaced
challenging
winding
complicate
unintelligible
cumbersome
problematic
dense
jumbled
knotted
mixed
vexing
mystical
thought-provoking
rambling
hi-tech
gnarly
unsolvable
Daedalean
inextricable
mazelike
bemusing
frustrating
mazy
insolvable
insoluble
labyrinthial
labyrinthical
labyrinthal
labyrinthiform
labyrinthic
dark
trying
impossible
fiendish
hairy
awkward
unanswerable
sinuous
twisted
ravelled
UK
circuitous
ornate
rococo
multifaceted
heterogeneous
nuanced
muddled
multifarious
variegated
weighty
murky
serious
hidden
concealed
raveled
US
high-tech
mixed up
long-drawn-out
can of worms
maze-like
drawn-out
uncanny
heavy
untold
beyond one's grasp
advanced
ambiguous
enigmatical
hard to explain
above your head
hard to solve
beyond comprehension
hazy
opaque
over one's head
as clear as mud
hard to understand
arduous
arcane
occult
mystic
Delphic
secret
unknowable
cabalistic
sibylline
rarefied
cabbalistic
hermetic
hermetical
unexplainable
equivocal
elliptical
little known
elliptic
chaotic
devious
oracular
oblique
double-edged
messy
vague
ramified
indecipherable
nebulous
orphic
acroamatic
misleading
fuliginous
sphinxlike
unexplained
impossible to understand
recherché
clear as mud
unsolved
bamboozling
surprising
hard to follow
inaccessible
metaphysical
intense
finicky
formidable
subtle
curious
little-known
out-of-the-way
scrambled
cerebral
intellectual
bizarre
elite
demanding
beyond understanding
undiscoverable
Greek to me
secretive
contradictory
inconsistent
perplexed
beyond you
full of surprises
insuperable
unattainable
hopeless
unrealizable
undoable
mixed-up
clear as dishwater
queer
mysterial
ineffable
unresolvable
muddling
private
unnatural
inner
magical
intertwined
interwoven
between the lines
erudite
veiled
high-level
higher-level
stealthy
unknown
blurring
unsettling
disorienting
incognizable
cagey
subjective
indirect
roundabout
ungraspable
unexcogitable
muddlesome
mistakable
indiscernible
irresolvable
without a solution
unresolved
unable to be solved
unconcluded
plotty
top-level
uncertain
indefinite
long-winded
indistinct
dubious
doubtful
indeterminate
foggy
tenebrous
unstraightforward
obfuscated
amphibological
overlong
verbose
deceptive
lengthy
cunning
perverse
difficult to follow
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Dangerous or perilous in nature
jeopardous
hazardous
perilous
risky
unsafe
chancy
precarious
speculative
insecure
threatening
hairy
menacing
unhealthy
serious
delicate
treacherous
venturesome
parlous
bad
ticklish
exposed
nasty
touchy
deadly
unstable
critical
shaky
urgent
adventurous
alarming
dangersome
fatal
mortal
pressing
venturous
viperous
vulnerable
breakneck
dynamite
formidable
heavy
hot
malignant
terrible
ugly
loaded
queasy
touch-and-go
on collision course
dangerous
grievous
grave
jeopardizing
US
jeopardising
UK
dicey
uncertain
dodgy
adverse
harmful
detrimental
hurtful
damaging
injurious
deleterious
prejudicial
pernicious
unsound
nocuous
lethal
troubling
noxious
baleful
baneful
life-threatening
severe
high-risk
tricky
gnarly
iffy
unpredictable
rocky
fraught with danger
long shot
unchancy
scary
extreme
foolhardy
reckless
ominous
slippery
difficult
sticky
shonky
endangered
defenseless
US
defenceless
UK
on thin ice
playing with fire
wide-open
on slippery ground
out on a limb
hanging by a thread
more ❯
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
spiny
splintery
stabbing
stinging
tapered
tapering
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
▲
Tending to find fault or raise petty objections
captious
critical
carping
cavilling
UK
fault-finding
hypercritical
censorious
deprecating
disparaging
nagging
overcritical
niggling
nit-picking
pedantic
pettifogging
quibbling
caviling
US
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
disapproving
faultfinding
hair-splitting
judgemental
judgmental
nitpicking
rejective
pass-remarkable
pernickety
acrimonious
cantankerous
cavillous
contrary
crabby
cross
demanding
exacting
exceptive
finicky
hairsplitting
irritable
negative
nitpicky
peevish
perverse
petty
petulant
sarcastic
severe
testy
touchy
tricky
trivial
unfair
unjust
very critical
condemnatory
reproachful
hard to please
deprecatory
condemning
scathing
overnice
picky
censuring
judgy
complaining
fussy
castigatory
denunciatory
reproving
unfavourable
UK
contemptuous
stern
pejorative
over-censorious
pharisaic
griping
bellyaching
unfavorable
US
whingeing
calumniatory
belittling
cutting
cynical
difficult to please
self-righteous
derogatory
nit-picky
impossible to please
nice
fine
punctilious
subtle
unsympathetic
querulous
over-rigorous
overexact
overprecise
over-strict
overrefined
persnickety
unforgiving
berating
damning
reprobatory
grousing
grouchy
moaning
grumbling
reprobative
on someone's back
ultra-critical
culpatory
accusatory
denouncing
reprehending
vituperative
reproaching
chiding
severely critical
grouching
whining
bleating
slighting
kvetching
particular
mithering
chuntering
full of reproof
dissatisfied
discontented
scolding
critic
humbling
demeaning
harsh
trenchant
sharp
biting
choleric
withering
satirical
lowering
hostile
discouraging
unfriendly
antagonistic
accusing
adverse
poor
bad
injurious
unflattering
uncomplimentary
inimical
jaundiced
low
naysaying
damnatory
admonitory
adversarial
upbraiding
slating
knocking
adversary
disavowing
damaging
opposing
vicious
sharp-tongued
destructive
antipathetic
inhospitable
prejudicial
unhelpful
undermining
disobliging
invalidating
obstructive
counter
vexatious
discrediting
ill-disposed
corrosive
offensive
caustic
abrasive
troublesome
disappointed
blameful
brusque
cruel
hurtful
accusive
abusive
proscriptive
frowning
admonishing
opprobrious
incriminatory
accusatorial
ambiguous
equivocal
evasive
boot-faced
disapprobatory
nasty
cursing
mean
displeased
shrewish
jesuitical
sophistical
reprehensive
untoward
more ❯
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