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adj. Full of or covered with thorns.

adj. Spiny.

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

adj. having thorns or spines

adj. troublesome or vexatious

adj. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny.

adj. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.

Abounding in or covered with thorns; producing thorns; prickly; spiny.

Characteristic of or resembling a thorn; sharp; irritating; painful.

In zoology, spinous; prickly; echinate.

adj. bristling with perplexities

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

"Far more thorny is the question of whether casual sex, or any sex outside marriage, is emotionally harmful."

difficult    hard    armed   

thorny lobster    thorny oyster   

thorniest    thornier   

spiny    vexatious    harassing    perplexing    prickle   

Horney    Sigourney    corny    horny   

prickly    leafless    leafy    bushy    woody    impenetrable    spiky    spiny    luxuriant    knotty