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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
Causing difficulty or annoyance
Dangerous or perilous in nature
Requiring more effort than could be reasonably expected or asked for
Resembling a knife or its effects
Designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments
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▲
Adjective
▲
Having many thorns or thorn bushes
prickly
barbed
spiny
brambly
spiky
bristly
spiked
scratchy
sharp
pointed
spinous
briary
thistly
briery
spinose
spined
bristling
stinging
bristling with thorns
bristled
pronged
spiculate
spicular
pointy
barbellate
jagged
aculeate
burry
muricate
setaceous
rough
echinated
pricky
echinate
toothed
serrated
notched
sawtooth
sawtoothed
snaggy
setiferous
chaetophorous
stiff
setigerous
sticky
spiniferous
jaggy
bristlelike
spinelike
aciculate
hobnailed
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 ❯
“Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the
thorny
branches.”
Adjective
▲
Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble
difficult
tricky
delicate
problematic
sticky
sensitive
knotty
tough
prickly
hairy
awkward
ticklish
problematical
touchy
dodgy
complicated
troublesome
nasty
complex
tricksy
catchy
hard
intricate
controversial
trying
spiny
involved
taxing
vexatious
perplexing
irksome
convoluted
unpleasant
bothersome
worrying
upsetting
baffling
vexed
concerning
nettlesome
formidable
harassing
severe
puzzling
precarious
dicey
impenetrable
elaborate
uncertain
bewildering
tangled
embarrassing
uncomfortable
unfathomable
mystifying
sophisticated
confusing
chancy
risky
labyrinthine
iffy
fiddly
gnarly
dangerous
critical
abstruse
challenging
undecipherable
hazardous
rough
perilous
enigmatic
obscure
confounding
recondite
inscrutable
unpredictable
arduous
mind-bending
paradoxical
Byzantine
involute
unstable
rocky
involuted
entangled
volatile
disconcerting
incomprehensible
distressing
grievous
disturbing
touch-and-go
tortuous
dubious
labyrinthian
byzantine
profound
Daedalian
Gordian
uneasy
tight
bleak
dire
detailed
cryptic
fancy
painful
difficult to understand
deep
onerous
capricious
full of twists and turns
dark
forbidding
disagreeable
worrisome
mysterious
daedal
baroque
bitter
inexplicable
serious
confused
serpentine
interlaced
esoteric
fathomless
vexing
humiliating
mind-boggling
abstract
unclear
nice
compromising
contentious
unsteady
inconstant
fickle
temperamental
mercurial
variable
changeable
cringey
heavy
cringeworthy
annoying
loaded
flustering
unsafe
parlous
discomfiting
strenuous
grim
impossible
emotive
awful
punishing
operose
cringe-making
unfriendly
suspect
questionable
spartan
hostile
incommodious
complicate
winding
cumbersome
high-risk
dense
jumbled
knotted
mixed
hi-tech
fraught with danger
rambling
unsolvable
Daedalean
unintelligible
mystical
thought-provoking
intractable
wicked
catch-22
quirky
undependable
frustrating
bemusing
subtle
provocative
rugged
laborious
heated
problem
messy
fiendish
divisive
scandalous
discomforting
like herding cats
searching
penetrating
treacherous
vulnerable
kittle
kid-glove
threatening
unsound
grave
devilish
hair-trigger
insoluble
unanswerable
insolvable
daunting
demanding
insecure
shaky
demeaning
degrading
devil of a
weighty
murky
hidden
concealed
inconvenient
embarrassed
unchancy
erratic
fluctuant
untimely
discountenancing
discomposing
ravelled
UK
sinuous
twisted
circuitous
ornate
uncanny
charged
unnerving
tense
multifaceted
multifarious
variegated
rococo
heterogeneous
nuanced
muddled
incalculable
raveled
US
excruciating
exasperating
shameful
high-tech
can of worms
maze-like
mixed up
long-drawn-out
drawn-out
ambiguous
hard to solve
beyond comprehension
beyond one's grasp
advanced
enigmatical
hard to explain
above your head
hazy
opaque
over one's head
toe-curling
untold
tickly
torturous
galling
fraught
irritating
dolorous
bumpy
as clear as mud
hard to understand
itchy
confronting
distressed
afflictive
wearisome
scratchy
strange
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
odd
weird
peculiar
funny
unaccountable
inextricable
mazy
wildering
mazelike
labyrinthic
befuddling
beyond one
arcane
occult
Delphic
mystic
devious
secret
cabalistic
cabbalistic
clear as mud
sibylline
hermetic
hermetical
chaotic
surprising
extensive
secretive
little known
roundabout
oracular
thorough
manifold
misleading
ramified
meticulous
refined
lengthy
unknowable
rarefied
disorienting
painstaking
minute
multidimensional
incognizable
many-faceted
elite
exact
ungraspable
acroamatic
orphic
technical
impossible to understand
vague
inconceivable
high-level
bamboozling
higher-level
oblique
recherché
Greek to me
top-level
nebulous
clear as dishwater
layered
unwieldy
inordinate
state-of-the-art
astonishing
stupefying
radical
perplexed
plotty
contradictory
inconsistent
intense
new
clever
gimmicky
long-winded
little-known
out-of-the-way
indivisible
muddling
indissoluble
verbose
overlong
tender
drastic
disarranged
disorganized
US
dainty
blurring
unsettling
inseparable
muddlesome
mistakable
complete
sweeping
extreme
revolutionary
veiled
varied
disordered
full of surprises
beyond you
fine
unintuitive
inaccessible
clandestine
polygonal
shadowy
between the lines
major
difficult to follow
unimaginable
hard to follow
covert
shrouded
disorganised
UK
kaleidoscopic
elliptical
avant
higher
out of your depth
unrelatable
Greek
riddling
uninterpretable
elliptic
private
irreducible
inner
coded
unexplained
higher level
magical
clouded
cloaked
particularized
US
erudite
far-out
not easily understood
double-edged
indecisive
fuliginous
illegible
incredible
illogical
impossible to separate
full
particular
studied
harsh
all Greek to someone
double Dutch
beats me
too hard to understand
too difficult to understand
unrevealed
anagogic
cloak-and-dagger
black
all Greek to you
laboured
UK
perfected
careful
precise
multilayered
twisting
labored
US
circumstantial
skilful
UK
imposing
skillful
US
prodigious
gingerbread
compound
pluridimensional
uncompromising
fierce
exacting
brutal
overdone
overworked
particularised
UK
meandering
anfractuous
indirect
blow-by-blow
unforgiving
austere
many-sided
high tech
highly wrought
circular
indecipherable
ambagious
sphinxlike
winding around
going around
back road
indiscernible
long way around
by way of
more complex
more advanced
more sophisticated
more ❯
“Yet all of these
thorny
questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority.”
Adjective
▲
Causing difficulty or annoyance
troublesome
bothersome
trying
annoying
vexatious
irksome
irritating
hard
aggravating
taxing
tough
distressing
awkward
tricky
disturbing
vexing
problematic
exasperating
demanding
upsetting
arduous
troubling
worrying
wearisome
burdensome
maddening
unsettling
worrisome
tiresome
perturbing
laborious
disquieting
inconvenient
rough
heavy
discomforting
oppressive
infuriating
harassing
nasty
discomposing
uphill
pesky
painful
nagging
alarming
troublous
concerning
pestiferous
pestilent
plaguy
pestilential
niggling
messy
mean
wicked
ugly
damaging
infestive
repressive
difficult
unpleasant
traumatic
harrying
harrowing
dismaying
hairy
grave
daunting
knotty
prickly
sticky
tormenting
scary
nerve-racking
anxious-making
galling
rankling
infernal
irking
abrasive
riling
tedious
confounded
chafing
peeving
carking
incommodious
frustrating
nettlesome
nettling
rebarbative
plaguey
pesty
cussed
nerve-wracking
displeasing
provoking
objectionable
grating
wretched
repugnant
deplorable
unwelcome
antagonizing
US
discouraging
enraging
challenging
jarring
forbidding
puzzling
lamentable
agonizing
US
agonising
UK
disagreeable
afflicting
disappointing
festering
antipathetic
teasing
wearing
unsatisfying
unattractive
impossible
antagonising
UK
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
harrasive
unmanageable
uncontrollable
ungovernable
incontrollable
complex
insoluble
intractable
impossible to cope with
out of control
out of hand
unnerving
agitating
distressful
disconcerting
uncomfortable
creepy
nail-biting
fraught
discomfiting
nervous
uneasy
anxious
severe
discommoding
frightening
startling
tense
gnawing
restless
charged
foreboding
devastating
depressing
perplexing
exciting
stressful
off-putting
spooky
bothering
embarrassing
confronting
ominous
gloomy
onerous
sinister
pessimistic
flustering
gut-wrenching
confusing
bewildering
distracting
baffling
serious
bad
dangerous
critical
strained
terrible
insidious
lurking
lingering
awful
dreadful
frightful
cliffhanging
dramatic
volatile
destabilising
UK
destabilizing
US
explosive
white-knuckle
knife-edge
persistent
unrelenting
sneaking
injurious
harmful
slight but persistent
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
▲
Requiring more effort than could be reasonably expected or asked for
tall
demanding
difficult
exacting
unreasonable
hard
tough
agonising
UK
agonizing
US
bruising
brutal
challenging
daunting
excessive
exorbitant
grueling
US
gruelling
UK
harsh
intense
mighty
punishing
rigorous
rough
tedious
tortuous
torturous
troublesome
weighty
ambitious
arduous
backbreaking
back-breaking
bothersome
colossal
crushing
excruciating
extreme
fierce
forbidding
formidable
grievous
grim
immoderate
impossible
laborious
oppressive
ponderous
severe
strenuous
stressful
trying
unfair
crippling
galling
harrowing
hellish
herculean
merciless
onerous
steep
taxing
unsparing
uphill
wearisome
wearying
exhausting
fatiguing
imperious
prohibitive
stringent
testing
titanic
toilsome
effortful
heavy
hellacious
killer
moiling
murderous
rugged
stiff
sweaty
painstaking
unforgiving
burdensome
tiring
wearing
debilitating
toilful
tiresome
draining
operose
cumbersome
intimidating
unyielding
upstream
vigorous
grinding
sapping
hairy
gargantuan
painful
Herculean
energy-consuming
unbearable
intolerable
unpleasant
knackering
distressing
jarring
solemn
distressful
killing
shattering
depleting
unremitting
staggering
immense
gigantic
really hard
very hard
backbreaker
dicey
awful
tough going
problem
ominous
hazardous
insufferable
easier said than done
nerve-racking
slavish
sticky
torturesome
unendurable
tormenting
not easy
hard-won
drudgy
labored
US
serious
no picnic
worksome
vicious
marathon
cruel
uncomfortable
troubling
difficile
laboured
UK
unnerving
ferocious
almighty
savage
scabrous
problematic
uphill battle
high-pressure
discomforting
thoroughgoing
hefty
major
high-impact
like getting blood out of a stone
persnickety
pressing
exigent
tricky
time-consuming
Augean
pick-and-shovel
relentless
mean
irksome
enervating
wicked
overwhelming
strained
austere
monumental
Sisyphean
withering
searching
racking
critical
dour
chastening
thorough
unrelenting
mammoth
spartan
dogged
prodigious
murder
knotty
despotic
domineering
slow
no piece of cake
boring
wretched
large order
heavy sledding
very difficult
unrelaxing
exerting
hardworking
work-intensive
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
spiny
splintery
stabbing
stinging
tapered
tapering
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 ❯
Adjective
▲
Designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments
captious
bewildering
confusing
sophistical
entrapping
misleading
tricky
devious
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