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Spineless vs Spiny - What's the difference?

spineless | spiny |

As adjectives the difference between spineless and spiny

is that spineless is having no spine while spiny is covered in spines or thorns.

As a noun spiny is

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spineless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no spine
  • uncourageous

    • Derived terms

    * spinelessness

    Anagrams

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    spiny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • covered in spines or thorns
  • troublesome; difficult or vexing
  • * Bishop Warburton
    • the spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy
  • Like a spine in shape; slender.
  • * Chapman
    • Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping.

    Synonyms

    * (covered in spines) thorny, prickly * (troublesome) thorny, prickly

    Noun

    (spinies)
    • (Webster 1913)

    Related terms

    * spine