| NOUN | attribute | thorniness, prickliness, bristliness, spininess | the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines |
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| attribute | thorniness, bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness | a rough and bitter manner |
| Meaning | The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines. | |
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| Synonyms | prickliness, bristliness, spininess | |
| Broader | roughness, raggedness | A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven |
| Adjectives | thorny | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. |
| Meaning | A rough and bitter manner. | |
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| Synonyms | bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness | |
| Broader | disagreeableness | An ill-tempered and offensive disposition |
| Spanish | acrimonia, acritud | |
| Catalan | acrimònia, acritud | |
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