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thornyadjective having leaves or branches which are likely to cause a scratchstay out of the thorny brambles unless you want a ton of scratches brambly, prickly, scratchy, thistly burredbristly, coarse, jagged, rough requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handlingthe candidate tried to avoid discussing his views on the thorny issue catchy, delicate, difficult, dodgy(chiefly British), hairy, knotty, nasty, prickly, problematic(also problematical), sensitive, spiny, sticky, ticklish, touchy, tough, tricksy, tricky abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, hard, intricate, involved, recondite, seriousproblem, scabrous, stubborn, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, vexing, worrisomeburdensome, demanding, discommoding, exacting, exhausting, importunate, inconvenient, onerous, oppressive, painful, stressful easy, effortless, manageable, painless, simple, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, unproblematic before the 12th century |