About The Word Knotty

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Knotty

Knotty Meaning & Definition
Knotty Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Knotty?

[adj] making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
[adj] highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
[adj] used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Knotty: baffling | Byzantine | complex | convoluted | crooked | difficult | gnarled | gnarly | hard | intricate | involved | knobbed | knotted | labyrinthine | problematic | problematical | tangled | tortuous

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Knotty In Webster's Dictionary

\Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. {Knottier}; superl. {Knottiest}.] 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] --Rewe. 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope.

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