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Knotty

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 Related Terms \| Find terms related to Knotty: abstruse \| arduous \| beyond one \| brutal \| burled \| Byzantine \| complex \| complicated \| crabbed \| cramp \| critical \| daedal \| delicate \| demanding \| difficile \| difficult \| effortful \| elaborate \| exacting \| formidable \| garbled \| gnarled \| gnarly \| gordian \| hairy \| hard \| hard to understand \| hard-earned \| hard-fought \| Herculean \| intricate \| involved \| jawbreaking \| jumbled \| knobbed \| knobbly \| knobby \| knoblike \| knotted \| knurled \| knurly \| laborious \| labyrinthine \| lumpy \| mean \| no picnic \| nodal \| noded \| nodiform \| nodose \| nodular \| nodulated \| noduled \| not easy \| nubbled \| nubbly \| nubby \| obfuscated \| obscure \| obscured \| operose \| overtechnical \| perplexed \| rigorous \| rough \| rugged \| scrambled \| set with thorns \| severe \| sophisticated \| spiny \| steep \| sticky \| strenuous \| studded \| terrible \| thorny \| ticklish \| toilsome \| torose \| tough \| tricky \| tubercular \| tuberculous \| tuberose \| tuberous \| uphill \| wicked See Also \| 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.

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"

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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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