Thornier

Synonyms for "thornier" (121 found)

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Closest matches (25)

barbellate difficult prickly abstruse acanaceous acanthoid aciculate aculeolate arduous barbed brambly briery bristly brutal

Adjective(3 words)

aloof cantankerous captious

Adjective(8 words)

barbed barbellate briary briery bristled bristly burred burry

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Related words (60)

not easy operose painful pricking pricky problematic rigorous rough rugged scabrous set with thorns setaceous setose severe sore spiculate spiculose spiked spinous spiny

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steep sticky stinging strenuous tangled thistly ticklish toilsome tough tricky troublesome uphill vexatious wicked worrying

Adjective(21 words)

offish peevish petulant prickly quiet ratty remote reserved spiky spiny splenetic standoffish strange thorned touch-me-not-ish unapproachable unbending unconcerned undemonstrative unimpressionable

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Adjective(4 words)

prickly setaceous setose spiny

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The project has proved thornier than we hoped.

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