| 单词 | thorny |
| 释义 | thorny (once / 2082 pages) adj WORD FAMILY thorny: thornier, thorniest, thornily, thorniness+/thorn: thornless, thorns, thorny USAGE EXAMPLESThe incoming Trump administration, like its predecessors, will face challenges and thorny dilemmas across the globe, not least in the Middle East. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) The obituary for Bill Usery commemorated a life committed to finding mutually beneficial solutions to the thorniest of labor, management and governmental problems. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Uplifting as these adoption tales are, they raise some thorny questions. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) 1adj bristling with perplexities the thorny question of states' rights Syn difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure 2adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Syn barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny armed (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns |
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