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Knotty

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Definitions for Knotty

adjective
making great mental demands
Synonyms
baffling elusive problematic problematical tough
Examples
  1. hard to comprehend or solve or believe
  2. a baffling problem
  3. I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
  4. a problematic situation at home
adjective
used of old persons or old trees
Synonyms
gnarled gnarly knotted knobbed
Examples
  1. covered with knobs or knots
  2. gnarled and knotted hands
  3. a knobbed stick
adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Synonyms
Byzantine convoluted involved tangled tortuous
Examples
  1. the Byzantine tax structure
  2. Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
  3. convoluted legal language
  4. convoluted reasoning
  5. the plot was too involved
  6. a knotty problem
  7. got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
  8. Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott
  9. tortuous legal procedures
  10. tortuous negotiations lasting for months
adjective
tangled in knots or snarls
Synonyms
snarled snarly
Examples
  1. a mass of knotted string
  2. snarled thread

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