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briery
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorny or difficult |
| Synonyms: | annoying, barbed, bothersome, brambly, briery, bristly, complicated, echinated, intricate, involved, knotty, nettlesome, pointed, sharp, spiny, stimulating, ticklish, tricky, troublesome, trying |
| Antonyms: | smooth |
| Main Entry: | thorny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp, pointed |
| Synonyms: | arrowlike, barbed, briery, bristling, bristly, prickly, spiked, spiky, spinous, spiny, stinging, thistly |
| Antonyms: | dull, smooth, unpointed |
| Main Entry: | echinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorny |
| Synonyms: | barbed, briery, bristling, echinated, prickly, pricky, spiked, spiky, spiny, thistly |
| Main Entry: | gnawing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, poin, pointed |
| Main Entry: | knifelike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Main Entry: | lancinating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Main Entry: | pricky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorny |
| Synonyms: | barbed, briery, bristling, bristly, echinate, prickly, spiked, spiky, spinous, spiny, stinging, thistly |
| Main Entry: | stabbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Main Entry: | thistly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorny |
| Synonyms: | barbed, briery, bristling, bristly, echinate, prickly, pricky, spiked, spiky, spinous, spiny, stinging |
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