English-Thai Dictionary

thorny

ADJ มี หนาม มาก  เต็มไปด้วย หนาม  barbed spiny stinging me-nam-mak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THORNY

a.Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; as a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny diadem or crown. 1. Troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing; as thorny care; the thorny path of vice.
2. Sharp; pricking; vexatious; as thorny points.

 

THORNY REST-HARROW

n.A plant.

 

THORNY-TREFOIL

n.A plant of the genus Fagonia.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

THORNY

Thorn "y, a. [Compar. Thornier; superl. Thorniest.] Etym: [Cf. AS. þorniht.]

 

1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

 

2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress. " Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot. ), rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc. ).

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

thorny

thorn y |ˈTHôrnē ˈθɔrni | ▶adjective ( thornier, thorniest ) having many thorns or thorn bushes. • causing distress, difficulty, or trouble: a thorny problem for our team to solve. DERIVATIVES thorn i ly |-nəlē |adverb, thorn i ness noun

 

thorny-headed worm

thorn y-head ed worm ▶noun a parasitic worm with a thornlike proboscis for attachment to the gut of vertebrates. [Phylum Acanthocephala. ]

 

thorny oyster

thorn y oys ter ▶noun a bivalve mollusk of warm seas, whose pinkish-brown shell is heavily ribbed and bears blunt or flattened spines. [Family Spondylidae: Spondylus and other genera. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

thorny

thorny |ˈθɔːni | ▶adjective ( thornier, thorniest ) 1 having many thorns or thorn bushes. 2 causing distress, difficulty, or trouble: a thorny problem for our team to solve. DERIVATIVES thornily adverb, thorniness noun

 

thorny devil

thorny devil ▶noun another term for moloch.

 

thorny-headed worm

thorny-headed worm ▶noun a parasitic worm with a thornlike proboscis for attachment to the gut of vertebrates. Also called spiny-headed worm. ●Phylum Acanthocephala.

 

thorny oyster

thorny oys ¦ter ▶noun a bivalve mollusc of warm seas, the pinkish-brown shell of which is heavily ribbed and bears blunt or flattened spines. ●Family Spondylidae: Spondylus and other genera.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

thorny

thorny adjective 1 dense thorny undergrowth: prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, sharp; technical spinose, spinous. 2 the thorny subject of confidentiality: problematic, tricky, ticklish, touchy, delicate, controversial, awkward, difficult, knotty, tough, taxing, trying, troublesome; complicated, complex, involved, intricate; vexed, sticky.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

thorny

thorny adjective 1 he had to scramble through dense thorny undergrowth: prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed; technical spinose, spinous. 2 the thorny subject of confidentiality: problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly; difficult, knotty, tough, taxing, trying, troublesome, irksome, vexatious, bothersome, worrying, upsetting; complicated, complex, involved, convoluted, intricate, vexed; informal sticky; Brit. informal dodgy. ANTONYMS easy, uncomplicated.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

thorny

thorn y /θɔ́ː r ni /形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 困難な, やっかいな 〈問題 争点など 〉.2 とげのある 〈植物 〉; とげの多い .th ó rn i ness 名詞