spiny

spiny is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
2. adjective. Like a spine in shape; slender.
3. adjective. Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
4. noun. See Spinny.
5. adjective. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

   "a horse with a short bristly mane"

   "bristly shrubs"

   Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny

6. adjective. having spines

   "the dorsal fin is spinous"

   Synonyms: spinous

Synonyms

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny, spinous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spiny:

pyins, snipy

Common word forms

spinier, spiniest

Words from these letters

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