Antonyms for thorny
ˈθɔr nithorny

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1. thorny

   Synonyms:
   spiny, prickly, harassing, troublesome

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1. thornyadjective

   bristling with perplexities

   "the thorny question of states' rights"

   Antonyms:
   unarmed, easy

   Synonyms:
   bristly, barbellate, bristled, barbed, briery, spiny, setaceous, prickly, briary, burred, setose, burry

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

   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"

   Antonyms:
   easy, unarmed

   Synonyms:
   briary, nipping, prickly, barbed, setose, waspish, mordacious, pungent, burred, spinous, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, burry, biting, splenetic, spiny, bristled

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1. thornyadjective

   Synonyms:
   spiny, briery, prickly, vexatious, troublesome, annoying

How to use thorny in a sentence?

1. Michel de Montaigne:

   Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

2. Liang Tieshan:

   Because the mechanisms and related policies for state-owned firms exiting the market are not complete, closing them will raise thorny problems like the settlement of debts.

3. Chris Dougherty:

   When the Russians try to fix one problem they caused themselves, another problem arises, you're trying to create a thorny knot of dilemmas so every time they try to do something that makes their life better, it actually makes their life worse.

4. Phil Lounibos:

   I think the science is fine, they definitely can kill mosquitoes, but the GMO issue still sticks as something of a thorny issue for the general public, it's not even so much about the science — you can't go ahead with something like this if public opinion is negative.

5. Wendy Young:

   There are some really thorny legal questions that arise.

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