thorned
adjective, verb
thorned is an adjective meaning “Containing thorns” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-O-R-N-E-D, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does thorned mean?
adjective
- 1
Containing thorns.
Near-synonym: spined
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of thorn
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thorned
- more thorned comparative
- most thorned superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thorned?
Thorned appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).