Definition of thorny

"thorny" in the adjective sense

1. thorny

bristling with perplexities

"the thorny question of states' rights"

2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

"a horse with a short bristly mane"

"bristly shrubs"

"burred fruits"

"setaceous whiskers"

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Quotations for thorny

The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]

Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem. [ Hafiz ]

Prudence is not poverty; it is the thorny road to wealth. [ Charles Reade ]

What is the world, or its opinion, to him who has studied in the lives of men the mysteries of their egotism and perfidy! He knows that the best and most generous hearts are often forced to tread the thorny paths, where insults and outrages are heaped upon them! [ George Sand ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

thorny in Scrabble®

The word thorny is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

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thorny in Words With Friends™

The word thorny is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of thorny

2 letter words in thorny (5 words)

3 letter words in thorny (10 words)

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thorny + 2 blanks (5 words)

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