Crossword-Solution: THORNY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thorny | superl. | Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. |
| Thorny | superl. | Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| THORNY | anagram | RHYTON |
We have 30 clues for the answer “THORNY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| spinate | 1 answer |
| Beset with obstacles. | 1 answer |
| Complex, as a predicament | 1 answer |
| Full of complexities | 1 answer |
| Full of controversial points. | 1 answer |
| Full of difficulty | 1 answer |
| Full of vexations. | 1 answer |
| Not easy to solve | 1 answer |
| Spinose | 1 answer |
| Tough to navigate | 1 answer |
| Like rosebushes | 2 answers |
| Complicated, as a problem | 2 answers |
| BRAKY | 3 answers |
| spiky | 3 answers |
| Full of difficulties | 4 answers |
| Tough to solve | 4 answers |
| Tough to figure out | 5 answers |
| Difficult to deal with | 5 answers |
| Nettlesome | 7 answers |
| Spiny ___ | 8 answers |
| spiked | 9 answers |
| A DIFFICULTY THAT IS HARD TO DEAL WITH | 11 answers |
| Prickly ___ | 16 answers |
| Barbed | 26 answers |
| Sticky | 43 answers |
| Baffling | 78 answers |
| Vexatious | 79 answers |
| Problematic | 88 answers |
| Difficult | 92 answers |
| Sharp | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THORNY (5)
She could show others the steep and thorny way, but “reck’d not her own rede.” And Troy’s deformities lay deep down from a woman’s vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
Heavy the hand of God, Thorny and rough the paths my feet have trod, Humbled my pride, my pleasure turned to pain; Poor mortals, how we labor all in vain! [Enter SECOND MESSENGER] SECOND MESSENGER.
GIFFORD acknowledged the thorny nature of this issue, which he illustrated with the example of the cumbersome process involved in putting a copy of a scientific database on a LAN in LC's science reading room.
Then, with a sudden brave toss of her head, she attacked the thorny boma wall with her delicate hands.
Now he leaped up and down within the safety of his own tree, screaming taunts and boasts at the discomfited Numa, while the boy, torn and bleeding, sought some position in his thorny retreat in which he might find the least agony.
Quotes with THORNY (3)
GOD. Sometimes I think there might be a god out there, and that every once in a while he tunes in to see what we're up to, and have a good laugh at how we like to dress him up in various costume. Robes, thorny crowns, yarmulkes and curls, saris and butt-hugging yoga pants. Male, female, a genderless reincarnation factory; a Mother Earth or a withholding Father Christmas. I would think it would amuse the hell out of him. That we're all idolaters, worshiping figments of our own…
I'm not naive...... I grew up in a white supremacist compound with a daddy who wanted to murder innocent people and blow up the government for funzies. They beat up and possibly killed anyone who didn't agree with their ideals, and married their daughters off to perverts to hide sex crimes. I am not one of those females who see the world through rose-coloured glasses, or if I do, the roses are blood-red and thorny as hell. - Tess
Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 34 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).