Definition for Thorny:

• Full of thorns; harassing.

Synonyms for Thorny:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • thorny.
  •awkward (adjective)
  • in-convenient,
  • in opportune,
  • un timeliest,
  • ill ease,
  • un-pleasant,
  • un timelier,
  • most compromising,
  • in convenient,
  • un-timelier,
  • un-timeliest,
  • un-timely,
  • more compromising,
  • un timely,
  • un pleasant,
  • inconvenient,
  • in-opportune,
  • painful.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • shaky,
  • parlous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • dangersome,
  • portentous,
  • on collision course,
  • touch and go,
  • risky.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • tight,
  • wearing,
  • rugged,
  • burdensome,
  • rough,
  • paradoxical,
  • cantankerous,
  • fussy,
  • finicky,
  • formidable,
  • complicated,
  • tangled,
  • hard,
  • complex,
  • demanding,
  • mystifying,
  • meandering,
  • toilsome,
  • laborious,
  • strenuous,
  • wearying,
  • adverse,
  • trying,
  • bothersome,
  • harsh,
  • hard to solve,
  • stressful,
  • arduous,
  • grinding,
  • severe,
  • wearisome,
  • contrary,
  • enigmatical,
  • uphill,
  • onerous,
  • involved,
  • hard to explain,
  • cumbersome,
  • oppressive.
  •difficult, problematic (adjective)
  • upsetting,
  • unpleasant,
  • baffling,
  • worrying,
  • Irksome,
  • Harassing.
  •perplexing (adjective)
  • more disconcerting,
  • most mind bending,
  • more mind bending,
  • more mind-bending,
  • dis concerting,
  • more mindbending,
  • most mind-bending,
  • most disconcerting,
  • dis-concerting,
  • mind bending,
  • most mindbending,
  • mindbending.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • pointed,
  • pointy,
  • pronged,
  • spiky,
  • ground fine,
  • apical,
  • sagittal,
  • sharp-edged,
  • needle-point,
  • Thistly,
  • keen-edged,
  • razor-sharp,
  • needle-like,
  • splintery,
  • Unblunted,
  • cutting,
  • jagged,
  • acute,
  • horned,
  • keen,
  • Needle-pointed,
  • spikiest,
  • tined,
  • lancinating,
  • acuate,
  • spikier,
  • knife-edged,
  • stabbing,
  • razor-edged,
  • spear-like,
  • spiked,
  • spinous,
  • Acuminous,
  • needlelike.
  •sharp, pointed (adjective)
  • Bristling,
  • stinging,
  • arrowlike.
  •spiny (adjective)
  • more hispid,
  • most hispid.
  •sticky (adjective)
  • dis-comforting,
  • most discomforting,
  • dis comforting,
  • more discomforting.
  •ticklish (adjective)
  • un steadiest,
  • un steadier,
  • in-constant,
  • un steady,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-steadier.
  •tough (adjective)
  • in tractable,
  • in-tractable,
  • no piece cake,
  • no piece of cake,
  • ex acting,
  • un yielding,
  • un-yielding,
  • ex-acting.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • un dependable,
  • quirky,
  • un-dependable.
  •uncomfortable (adjective)
  • in-commodious,
  • illfitting,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in commodious,
  • dis agreeable,
  • more illfitting,
  • most ill fitting,
  • most torturing,
  • most ill-fitting,
  • more ill-fitting,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most illfitting,
  • ill fitting,
  • galling,
  • more torturing,
  • un comfortable,
  • more ill fitting,
  • torturing.

• n.

  •
  • critical.
  •armed (noun)
  • armed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • intolerable,
  • unfeasible,
  • messy,
  • recalcitrant,
  • insolvable,
  • straitened,
  • Echinate,
  • unbridgeable,
  • insuperable,
  • insupportable,
  • Pricky,
  • insurmountable.
  •
  • intractable,
  • nettlesome,
  • testing,
  • ungovernable,
  • impossible,
  • unwieldy,
  • Fiendish,
  • insoluble.
  •
  • gnarly,
  • elusive,
  • chronic,
  • hypersensitive,
  • unrelenting,
  • inaccessible.
  •
  • gray.
  •
  • heavy.
  •bivalve
  • clam.

Paraphrases for Thorny:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    difficult, knotty.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    barbed, spiny, challenging, tough, arduous, sore, sticky, complex, fragile, inconvenient, onerous, precarious, embarrassing, troubling.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    razor.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    delicate, intractable, tricky, sensitive, contentious, troublesome, complicated, problematic, awkward, controversial, daunting, sticking, cumbersome, painful, hot.

Antonyms for Thorny:

• adj.

  • difficult, problematic
    helpful, straightforward, convenient, pleasant.
  • sharp, pointed
    smooth, easy, dull, solvable, untroublesome, unpointed.
  • Other antonyms:
    painless, simple, unarmed, uncomplicated, effortless, undemanding, unproblematic, manageable.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    armless, diffuse, diffused, soft.

Thorny Sentence Examples:

• But the story of the beautiful sleeping " Briar - rose," for so the princess was named, went about the country, so that from time to time kings' sons came and tried to get through the thorny hedge into the castle.

• It's a rough and thorny world, an' if ye will not walk in the cleared paths but gang yere air gait, ye must struggle with the briars.