英语词汇“thorny”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

thorny

/ˈθɔːni

adjective (thornier, thorniest)

1Having many thorns or thorn bushes: tangled thorny branches...

The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches.
The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin.
The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle.

Synonyms

prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed

technical spinose, spinous

2Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble: a thorny problem for our team to solve...

As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up.
Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions.
Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening.

Synonyms

problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly;

difficult, knotty, tough, taxing, trying, troublesome, irksome, vexatious, bothersome, worrying, concerning, upsetting;

complicated, complex, involved, convoluted, intricate, vexed

informal sticky

British informal dodgy

Derivatives

thornily

adverb ...

In the mountains of San Gabriel, overlooking the lowland vines and fruit groves, Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily savage.

thorniness

noun ...

It often forms dense thickets, and these are often thorny, since thornless cultivars appear to retain genes for thorniness that may be expressed as genes recombine in their progeny.
Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece.
Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness.

单词	thorny
释义	thorny /ˈθɔːni / adjective (thornier, thorniest) 1Having many thorns or thorn bushes: tangled thorny branches... The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches. The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin. The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle. Synonyms prickly, spiky, barbed, spiny, spined, bristly, briary, sharp, pointed technical spinose, spinous 2Causing distress, difficulty, or trouble: a thorny problem for our team to solve... As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up. Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions. Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening. Synonyms problematic, tricky, ticklish, delicate, controversial, awkward, prickly; difficult, knotty, tough, taxing, trying, troublesome, irksome, vexatious, bothersome, worrying, concerning, upsetting; complicated, complex, involved, convoluted, intricate, vexed informal sticky British informal dodgy Derivatives thornily adverb ... In the mountains of San Gabriel, overlooking the lowland vines and fruit groves, Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily savage. thorniness noun ... It often forms dense thickets, and these are often thorny, since thornless cultivars appear to retain genes for thorniness that may be expressed as genes recombine in their progeny. Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece. Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness. Rhymes brawny, corny, horny, lawny, mulligatawny, scrawny, tawny
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thorny

Derivatives

thornily

thorniness

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