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Knotty

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Adjective

1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough

making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

Example Sentences:
'a baffling problem'
'I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast'
'a problematic situation at home'

2. gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty

used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

Example Sentences:
'gnarled and knotted hands'
'a knobbed stick'

3. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

Example Sentences:
'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'
'tortuous legal procedures'
'tortuous negotiations lasting for months'

4. knotty, snarled, snarly

tangled in knots or snarls

Example Sentences:
'a mass of knotted string'
'snarled thread'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Knotty

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adjective -tier or -tiest
1. 
(of wood, rope, etc) full of or characterized by knots
2. 
extremely difficult or intricate

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Knotty

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈknottier or ˈknottiest
1. 
having or full of knots
a knotty board
2. 
hard to solve or explain; puzzling
a knotty problem

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Knotty

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adj. knot·ti·er, knot·ti·est
1. Tied or snarled in knots.
2. Covered with knots or knobs; gnarled.
3. Difficult to understand or solve: "[The columnist] supplies funny, wise responses to knotty ethical dilemmas posed by readers" (David Pogue).

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