thorny (redirected from thorniest)

thorn·y  (thôrn)

adj. thorn·i·er, thorn·i·est

1. Full of or covered with thorns.

2. Spiny.

3. Painfully controversial; vexatious: a thorny situation; thorny issues.

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thorni·ly adv.

thorni·ness n.

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thorny [ˈθɔːnɪ]

adj thornier, thorniest

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) bearing or covered with thorns

2. difficult or unpleasant a thorny problem

3. sharp

thornily  adv

thorniness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	thorny - bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights" difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
	2.	thorny - 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" barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, prickly, bristly, barbed armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

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thorny

adjective

1. prickly, spiky, spiny, pointed, sharp, barbed, bristly, spinous, bristling with thorns thorny hawthorn trees

2. troublesome, difficult, problematic(al), trying, hard, worrying, tough, upsetting, awkward, unpleasant, sticky (informal), harassing, irksome, ticklish, vexatious the thorny issue of immigration policy

Translations

thorny [ˈθɔːnɪ] ADJ (thornier (compar) (thorniest (superl))) (lit, fig) → espinoso

thorny [ˈθɔː^rni] adj

[plant, tree] → épineux/euse

[problem, issue] → épineux/euse

thorny

adj (+er) (lit) → dornig, dornenreich; (fig) → haarig

thorny [ˈθɔːnɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → irto/a di spine (fig) (tricky) → spinoso/a, scabroso/a