prickly vs thorny

prickly and thorny both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prickly	No	Yes	No	No
thorny	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, prickly and thorny are synonyms defined as:

prickly and thorny: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Other synonyms of prickly include barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny.

prickly (adjective)	thorny (adjective)
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.	having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
very irritable	bristling with perplexities