thorny

adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Full of or covered with thorns.
2. Spiny.
3. Painfully controversial; vexatious: a thorny situation; thorny issues.

thornily thorn'i·ly adv.
thorniness thorn'i·ness n.

adjective

1. Full of sharp needlelike protuberances: briery, echinate, prickly, pricky, spiny, thistly. See sharp/dull.
2. So replete with interlocking points and complications as to be painfully irritating: nettlesome, prickly, spiny. See easy/hard, pain/pleasure.

adj

Definition: difficult, problematic
Antonyms: easy, solvable, untroublesome

adj

Definition: sharp, pointed
Antonyms: dull, smooth, unpointed

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: bristling with perplexities

Meaning #2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.
  Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tornefuld, tornet

Nederlands (Dutch)
doornachtig, netelig

Français (French)
adj. - (lit, fig) épineux, délicat

Deutsch (German)
adj. - heikel, dornig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ακανθώδης, (μτφ.) δυσεπίλυτος, δύσκολος

Italiano (Italian)
spinoso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - espinhoso (m)

Русский (Russian)
острая (проблема), тернистый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - espinoso, peliagudo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - taggig, törnbeströdd

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
多刺的, 痛苦的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 多刺的, 痛苦的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 가시가 많은, 가시가 돋친, 어려운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - とげの多い, とげのような, 苦しい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) شائك‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קוצני, דוקרני, קשה, מטריד‬

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