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thorny

 
Adjective thorny has 2 senses
  1. thorny - bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"
    Antonym:
    easy (indirect, via difficult)
  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"
    Antonym: unarmed (indirect, via armed)
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