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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. irritant, thornnoun

    something that causes irritation and annoyance

    "he's a thorn in my flesh"

    Synonyms:
    sticker, prickle, spine, pricker, spikelet, irritant

  2. spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikeletnoun

    a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

    Synonyms:
    irritant, sticker, spikelet, stumper, prickle, pricker, bradawl, paster, gummed label, spinal column, spur, back, poser, backbone, acantha, spine, toughie, rachis, dagger, vertebral column

  3. thornnoun

    a Germanic character of runic origin

    Synonyms:
    pricker, sticker, prickle, spine, spikelet, irritant

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. kaate

    a pointed substance

    Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. thornnoun

    Synonyms:
    spine, prickle

  2. thornnoun

    Synonyms:
    annoyance, plague, nuisance, infliction, trouble, scourge, torment, bitter pill, curse, gall and wormwood

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 1 vote

  1. thornnoun

    Synonyms:
    spine, prickle, brier, torment, plague, infliction

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "thorn":

    spine, spina, splinter

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Thorn":

    MC Thorn

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How to use thorn in a sentence?

  1. Hassan Kamal:

    For better or worse, Khan is likely to be a thorn in the government's side for much time to come.

  2. Daniel Hoffman:

    I think China’s happy that Russia is such a thorn in our side. We take so much of our time and our energy and our resources to deal with Russia we have less to deal with China.

  3. Nicolle Wallace:

    You know, I don't want to be the chick police, but I think that Carly will go far by broadening the attack to everything that's wrong with the liberal approach as opposed to being the thorn in Hillary Clinton's side, she runs the risk of having it look personal.

  4. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The petals of their lips don't have the thorn of bodies. (Les pétales de leur lèvres N'ont pas l'épine des corps)

  5. Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer:

    There are forces within Iran for which the policies of the country's president and foreign minister are a thorn in the eye, they may be trying, one way or another, to undermine or torpedo the nuclear deal and the normalization of relations between us and Iran. We are watching this closely.


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