Dictionary Entry
thorny
thorny is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. Face value is 12 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.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
- 2superlative
Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
- 3adjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
"a horse with a short bristly mane"
"bristly shrubs"
- 4adjective
bristling with perplexities
"the thorny question of states' rights"
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