Definition of thorny in English:

thorny

adjectivethornier, thorniest ˈθɔːniˈθɔrni

1Having many thorns or thorn bushes.
多刺的；长满荆棘的
tangled thorny branches
Example sentencesExamples
- High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
- She picked her way through the scattered broken branches and around the thorny brambles, trying to locate her friend.
- I begin my hike next to a rushing stream, picking my way through thorny bushes in search of the trail.
- The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle.
- For instance, this thorny bush was growing near the entrance to our dormitory.
- Nests are built in cactuses or thorny vegetation or hanging from branches, and can be up to two meters long.
- Some species use twigs from thorny plants, making the nests difficult for predators to destroy.
- On my trip in Namibia, I watched from a blind amid the thorny scrub brush as a leopard crept up on a meal at sunset.
- There's a big bush on the side of the track, something thorny - blackthorn?
- It is a land that is difficult to grow anything in, except that flora which is tough, resourceful and thorny.
- Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the thorny branches.
- Only tough grasses and thorny tangle-bushes grew out there.
- We walked through thick thorny brushes, till we could go no further.
- I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
- My garden in Arizona is filled with strange succulent plants and small thorny trees with green trunks.
- The thorny branches almost seemed to reach out and grab him with each step he took, ensnaring him in their grasp.
- The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin.
- The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches.
- Nearly all roses are well equipped with sharp thorns, and some are very thorny.
- The plant itself is characterised by its long tapering sharp leaves with ribbed thorny ridges along the spine.
Synonyms
prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed
technical spinose, spinous
2Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble.
〈喻〉令人苦恼的；棘手的，麻烦的
a thorny problem for our team to solve
我们队要解决的一个棘手难题。
Example sentencesExamples
- Industry leaders met in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a seminar on the thorny problem of downloadable music.
- As the technology stands today, there's also the thorny question of deformed or reject clones.
- The big question is whether or not Namibia will take the bull by the horns and address the thorny question of inheritance.
- Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening.
- It was this thorny question which bogged down the Saturday night delegates.
- As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up.
- But in the UK, the important and thorny question of ethics is holding up research.
- In an effort to deal with this thorny question, I will propose a method for discerning the elements of worship.
- Later she addressed the thorny question of American independence from the mother country.
- We ended by pondering a thorny question: When should a nation fight against aggression?
- It made it harder for his sympathisers to dismiss the whole thorny question.
- Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions.
- Yet all of these thorny questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority.
- He addresses this thorny question in his third book on the science of belief.
- Companies today are now faced with the thorny question as to how they should spend their limited budgets.
- And there's always that thorny question of what came before the big bang?
- The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating.
- I must confess that on this thorny question of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship, I'd be a bit of a maverick.
- Whether to hold a diversified portfolio is one of those thorny questions that never fails to get a group of investors arguing.
- He is the only scholar to date to tackle that thorny question.
Synonyms
problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly
difficult, knotty, tough, taxing, trying, troublesome, irksome, vexatious, bothersome, worrying, concerning, upsetting
complicated, complex, involved, convoluted, intricate, vexed
informal sticky
British informal dodgy

Derivatives

thornily

adverb

In the mountains of San Gabriel, overlooking the lowland vines and fruit groves, Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily savage.

thorniness

noun

I think that's the whole reason for the thorniness of the debate here.
Example sentencesExamples
- Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness.
- Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece.
- Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown.
- It often forms dense thickets, and these are often thorny, since thornless cultivars appear to retain genes for thorniness that may be expressed as genes recombine in their progeny.

Rhymes

brawny, corny, horny, lawny, mulligatawny, scrawny, tawny

Definition of thorny in US English:

thorny

adjectiveˈθɔrniˈTHôrnē

1Having many thorns or thorn bushes.
多刺的；长满荆棘的
Example sentencesExamples
- The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle.
- Nearly all roses are well equipped with sharp thorns, and some are very thorny.
- On my trip in Namibia, I watched from a blind amid the thorny scrub brush as a leopard crept up on a meal at sunset.
- Only tough grasses and thorny tangle-bushes grew out there.
- The plant itself is characterised by its long tapering sharp leaves with ribbed thorny ridges along the spine.
- She picked her way through the scattered broken branches and around the thorny brambles, trying to locate her friend.
- The thorny branches almost seemed to reach out and grab him with each step he took, ensnaring him in their grasp.
- It is a land that is difficult to grow anything in, except that flora which is tough, resourceful and thorny.
- I begin my hike next to a rushing stream, picking my way through thorny bushes in search of the trail.
- For instance, this thorny bush was growing near the entrance to our dormitory.
- The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin.
- There's a big bush on the side of the track, something thorny - blackthorn?
- Some species use twigs from thorny plants, making the nests difficult for predators to destroy.
- We walked through thick thorny brushes, till we could go no further.
- The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches.
- Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the thorny branches.
- I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
- High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
- My garden in Arizona is filled with strange succulent plants and small thorny trees with green trunks.
- Nests are built in cactuses or thorny vegetation or hanging from branches, and can be up to two meters long.
Synonyms
prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed
1. 1.1 Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble.
  〈喻〉令人苦恼的；棘手的，麻烦的
  a thorny problem for our team to solve
  我们队要解决的一个棘手难题。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating.
  We ended by pondering a thorny question: When should a nation fight against aggression?
  As the technology stands today, there's also the thorny question of deformed or reject clones.
  Yet all of these thorny questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority.
  He is the only scholar to date to tackle that thorny question.
  Whether to hold a diversified portfolio is one of those thorny questions that never fails to get a group of investors arguing.
  As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up.
  It was this thorny question which bogged down the Saturday night delegates.
  Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions.
  I must confess that on this thorny question of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship, I'd be a bit of a maverick.
  Companies today are now faced with the thorny question as to how they should spend their limited budgets.
  It made it harder for his sympathisers to dismiss the whole thorny question.
  And there's always that thorny question of what came before the big bang?
  Industry leaders met in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a seminar on the thorny problem of downloadable music.
  In an effort to deal with this thorny question, I will propose a method for discerning the elements of worship.
  Later she addressed the thorny question of American independence from the mother country.
  He addresses this thorny question in his third book on the science of belief.
  Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening.
  The big question is whether or not Namibia will take the bull by the horns and address the thorny question of inheritance.
  But in the UK, the important and thorny question of ethics is holding up research.
  Synonyms
  problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly

词汇	thorny
释义	Definition of thorny in English: thorny adjectivethornier, thorniest ˈθɔːniˈθɔrni 1Having many thorns or thorn bushes. 多刺的；长满荆棘的 tangled thorny branches Example sentencesExamples High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by She picked her way through the scattered broken branches and around the thorny brambles, trying to locate her friend. I begin my hike next to a rushing stream, picking my way through thorny bushes in search of the trail. The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle. For instance, this thorny bush was growing near the entrance to our dormitory. Nests are built in cactuses or thorny vegetation or hanging from branches, and can be up to two meters long. Some species use twigs from thorny plants, making the nests difficult for predators to destroy. On my trip in Namibia, I watched from a blind amid the thorny scrub brush as a leopard crept up on a meal at sunset. There's a big bush on the side of the track, something thorny - blackthorn? It is a land that is difficult to grow anything in, except that flora which is tough, resourceful and thorny. Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the thorny branches. Only tough grasses and thorny tangle-bushes grew out there. We walked through thick thorny brushes, till we could go no further. I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing. My garden in Arizona is filled with strange succulent plants and small thorny trees with green trunks. The thorny branches almost seemed to reach out and grab him with each step he took, ensnaring him in their grasp. The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin. The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches. Nearly all roses are well equipped with sharp thorns, and some are very thorny. The plant itself is characterised by its long tapering sharp leaves with ribbed thorny ridges along the spine. Synonyms prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed technical spinose, spinous 2Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble. 〈喻〉令人苦恼的；棘手的，麻烦的 a thorny problem for our team to solve 我们队要解决的一个棘手难题。 Example sentencesExamples Industry leaders met in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a seminar on the thorny problem of downloadable music. As the technology stands today, there's also the thorny question of deformed or reject clones. The big question is whether or not Namibia will take the bull by the horns and address the thorny question of inheritance. Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening. It was this thorny question which bogged down the Saturday night delegates. As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up. But in the UK, the important and thorny question of ethics is holding up research. In an effort to deal with this thorny question, I will propose a method for discerning the elements of worship. Later she addressed the thorny question of American independence from the mother country. We ended by pondering a thorny question: When should a nation fight against aggression? It made it harder for his sympathisers to dismiss the whole thorny question. Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions. Yet all of these thorny questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority. He addresses this thorny question in his third book on the science of belief. Companies today are now faced with the thorny question as to how they should spend their limited budgets. And there's always that thorny question of what came before the big bang? The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating. I must confess that on this thorny question of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship, I'd be a bit of a maverick. Whether to hold a diversified portfolio is one of those thorny questions that never fails to get a group of investors arguing. He is the only scholar to date to tackle that thorny question. Synonyms problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly difficult, knotty, tough, taxing, trying, troublesome, irksome, vexatious, bothersome, worrying, concerning, upsetting complicated, complex, involved, convoluted, intricate, vexed informal sticky British informal dodgy Derivatives thornily adverb In the mountains of San Gabriel, overlooking the lowland vines and fruit groves, Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily savage. thorniness noun I think that's the whole reason for the thorniness of the debate here. Example sentencesExamples Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness. Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece. Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown. It often forms dense thickets, and these are often thorny, since thornless cultivars appear to retain genes for thorniness that may be expressed as genes recombine in their progeny. Rhymes brawny, corny, horny, lawny, mulligatawny, scrawny, tawny Definition of thorny in US English: thorny adjectiveˈθɔrniˈTHôrnē 1Having many thorns or thorn bushes. 多刺的；长满荆棘的 Example sentencesExamples The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle. Nearly all roses are well equipped with sharp thorns, and some are very thorny. On my trip in Namibia, I watched from a blind amid the thorny scrub brush as a leopard crept up on a meal at sunset. Only tough grasses and thorny tangle-bushes grew out there. The plant itself is characterised by its long tapering sharp leaves with ribbed thorny ridges along the spine. She picked her way through the scattered broken branches and around the thorny brambles, trying to locate her friend. The thorny branches almost seemed to reach out and grab him with each step he took, ensnaring him in their grasp. It is a land that is difficult to grow anything in, except that flora which is tough, resourceful and thorny. I begin my hike next to a rushing stream, picking my way through thorny bushes in search of the trail. For instance, this thorny bush was growing near the entrance to our dormitory. The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin. There's a big bush on the side of the track, something thorny - blackthorn? Some species use twigs from thorny plants, making the nests difficult for predators to destroy. We walked through thick thorny brushes, till we could go no further. The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches. Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the thorny branches. I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing. High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by My garden in Arizona is filled with strange succulent plants and small thorny trees with green trunks. Nests are built in cactuses or thorny vegetation or hanging from branches, and can be up to two meters long. Synonyms prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed 1.1 Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble. 〈喻〉令人苦恼的；棘手的，麻烦的 a thorny problem for our team to solve 我们队要解决的一个棘手难题。 Example sentencesExamples The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating. We ended by pondering a thorny question: When should a nation fight against aggression? As the technology stands today, there's also the thorny question of deformed or reject clones. Yet all of these thorny questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority. He is the only scholar to date to tackle that thorny question. Whether to hold a diversified portfolio is one of those thorny questions that never fails to get a group of investors arguing. As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up. It was this thorny question which bogged down the Saturday night delegates. Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions. I must confess that on this thorny question of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship, I'd be a bit of a maverick. Companies today are now faced with the thorny question as to how they should spend their limited budgets. It made it harder for his sympathisers to dismiss the whole thorny question. And there's always that thorny question of what came before the big bang? Industry leaders met in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a seminar on the thorny problem of downloadable music. In an effort to deal with this thorny question, I will propose a method for discerning the elements of worship. Later she addressed the thorny question of American independence from the mother country. He addresses this thorny question in his third book on the science of belief. Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening. The big question is whether or not Namibia will take the bull by the horns and address the thorny question of inheritance. But in the UK, the important and thorny question of ethics is holding up research. Synonyms problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly
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