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knotty


adjective
1. making great mental demands;
hard to comprehend or solve or believe (Freq. 1)
- a baffling problem
- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
- a problematic situation at home
Syn:
baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough
Similar to:
difficult, hard
Derivationally related forms:
toughness (for: tough), problem (for: problematical), problem (for: problematic), knottiness
2. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- the Byzantine tax structure
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
- convoluted legal language
- convoluted reasoning
- 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
Syn:
Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous
Similar to:
complex
Derivationally related forms:
tortuousness (for: tortuous), knottiness
3. used of old persons or old trees;
covered with knobs or knots
- gnarled and knotted hands
- a knobbed stick
Syn:
gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed
Similar to:
crooked
Derivationally related forms:
gnarl (for: gnarly)
4. tangled in knots or snarls
- a mass of knotted string
- snarled thread
Syn:
snarled, snarly
Similar to:
tangled
Derivationally related forms:
snarl (for: snarly), knot

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