Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: netelige
- Amharic: thorny
- Arabic: الشائكة
- Azerbaijani: tikanlı
- Bashkir: шыраулы
- Belarusian: цярністы
- Bulgarian: трънлив
- Bengali: সমস্যাসঙ্কুল
- Bosnian: trnovit
- Catalan: espinosa
- Cebuano: tunokon nga mga
- Czech: trnitá
- Welsh: dyrys
- Danish: tornede
- German: dornig
- Greek: ακανθώδες
- Esperanto: dornaj
- Spanish: espinosa
- Estonian: okkaline
- Basque: maitasun arantzaduna
- Persian: خاردار
- Finnish: hankala
- French: épineux
- Irish: íogair
- Scottish Gaelic: thorny
- Galician: espiñoso
- Gujarati: કાંટાળું
- Hebrew: תורני
- Hindi: कांटेदार
- Croatian: trnovit
- Haitian: litijyeu
- Hungarian: tüskés
- Armenian: փշոտ
- Indonesian: berduri
- Icelandic: þessi
- Italian: spinoso
- Japanese: 難
- Javanese: thorny
- Georgian: მწვავე
- Kazakh: тернистый
- Khmer: បន្លា
- Kannada: ಮುಳ್ಳಿನ
- Korean: 가시
- Kyrgyz: тернистый
- Latin: spinosum
- Luxembourgish: dornig
- Lao: ຍຂອງ
- Lithuanian: keblus
- Latvian: sarežģīto
- Malagasy: feno tsilo
- Mari: оргажан
- Maori: tataramoa
- Macedonian: најгорливите
- Malayalam: thorny
- Mongolian: эгзэгтэй
- Marathi: काटेरी
- Hill Mari: оргажан
- Malay: berduri
- Maltese: jaħraq
- Burmese: ဆူး
- Nepali: असहमत
- Dutch: doornige
- Norwegian: vanskelige
- Punjabi: ਸੋਸਨ
- Papiamento: asina
- Polish: drażliwej
- Portuguese: espinhoso
- Romanian: spinoasă
- Russian: тернистый
- Sinhalese: කටු
- Slovak: tŕnistá
- Slovenian: trnova
- Albanian: ferra
- Serbian: трновит
- Sundanese: thorny
- Swedish: taggiga
- Swahili: mwiba
- Tamil: இடைவிடாத
- Telugu: విసుగు పుట్టించెడు
- Tajik: тернистый
- Thai: thorny
- Tagalog: mahirap
- Turkish: dikenli
- Tatar: тернистый
- Udmurt: тернистый
- Ukrainian: тернистий
- Urdu: دشوار
- Uzbek: ifodasi
- Vietnamese: hóc búa
- Xhosa: thorny
- Yiddish: טאָרני
- Chinese: 棘手
Synonyms, close and similar words for thorny
- thorny path
- bristly
- stubbly
- spiky
- prickly
- scratchy
- bristling
- thistly
- biting
- spiny
- barbed
- blackthorn
- difficult
- ticklish
- touchy
- tricky
- knotty
- delicate
- sensitive
- tough
- sticky
- problematic
- problematical