knotty English

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knotty Adjective

— A knotty problem or issue is complicated and difficult to solve. Nobody can agree about how to deal with this extremely knotty problem.

knotty

— adjective (= baffling, problematic) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe a baffling problem I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast a problematic situation at home

— adjective (= snarled) tangled in knots or snarls a mass of knotted string snarled thread

— adjective (= gnarled, knotted, knobbed) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots gnarled and knotted hands a knobbed stick

— adjective (= Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous) 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

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knotty English » English

gnarled

knotted

knobby

involved

nodose

knobbed

knaggy

intricate

gnarly

complicated

snaggy

nodulose

convoluted

complex

uneven

tough

tortuous

tangled

snarly

snarled

rugged

problematical

problematic

nodular

hard

full of knots

elusive

difficult

baffling

Byzantine

warty

vexed

tuberculate

trying

tied by a knot

thorny

scabrous

rough

puzzling

pimpled

perplexing

nubbly

nodulous

nodulated

nodal

nasty

laboured

labored

knarry

knarred

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Bend

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  bent arched bowed crinkled curved curving curled devious gnarled gnarly hooked indirect jagged kinked knotted knotty knurled knurly turning twirled twisted