What is "thornier"

Thorny \Thorn"y\, a. [Compar. Thornier; superl. Thorniest.]

1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. ``The thorny point of bare distress.''
   --Shak.

   The steep and thorny way to heaven.
   --Shak.

   Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow.

   Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia ( Fagonia Cretica, etc.).

a. (en-comparative of: thorny)

1. adj. bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"

2. 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" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny]

3. [also: thorniest, thornier]

See thorny