Definitions for thorny
Overview of adj thorny
The adj thorny has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. thorny
(bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights")
2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, 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")
