thorny Definition

prickly, difficult, bristly, barbed, spiny, briary, hard, bristled, burry, burred, armed, barbellate, briery, knotty, vexing, contentious, intractable, tricky, delicate, complicated, sticky, controversial, problematic, troublesome, daunting, complex, awkward, arduous, sensitive, challenging, tough, troubling, topical, painful, cumbersome, fragile, precarious, hot, inconvenient, embarrassing, onerous, critical, explosive, sticking, sharp, acute, spined, sore, burning, vesting, razor, bat, hot-spot, rehousing, nettlesome, touchy, weighty, unresolved, dicey, tortuous, spiky, bramble, ticklish, perennial, irresolvable, spiniferous, wild rose, acanaceous, fractious, divisive, fingrigo, perplexing, festering, messy, unresolvable, pyracanth, spinigerous, problematical, unsolvable, murky, insolvable, convoluted, testy, rocky, neuralgic, insoluble, tangled, intriguing, abstruse, unsettled, philosophical, stone bramble, unpalatable, unpopular, aculeated, byzantine, brambled, resolvable, discussable, acrimonious,