Word Meanings - THORNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: THORNY

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 , rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc.).

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THORNY)

• Articular
• Spinous
• sagittate
• prickly
• thorny
• sharp-pointed
• hastate
• bristly

Related words: (words related to THORNY)

• ARTICULARLY
  In an articular or an articulate manner.
• ARTICULAR; ARTICULARY
  A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
• ARTICULAR
  Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.
• BRISTLY
  THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.
• THORNY
  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
• PRICKLY
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
• SAGITTATE
  Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
• SAGITTATED
  Sagittal; sagittate.
• HASTATE; HASTATED
  Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
• SPINOUS
  1. Spinose; thorny. 2. Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. Spinous process of a vertebra , the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.
• SUPERSPINOUS
  Supraspinuos.
• SUPRASPINATE; SUPRASPINOUS
  Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• SUBSPINOUS
  Subvertebral. Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• QUINQUARTICULAR
  Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. Bp. Sanderson.
• INTERARTICULAR
  Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.
• INTERSPINAL; INTERSPINOUS
  Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.
• PARTICULARMENT
  A particular; a detail.
• PARTICULARIZATION
  The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
• INFRASPINATE; INFRASPINOUS
  Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.