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Knotty
see synonyms of knottyAdjective
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'
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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Knotty
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