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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
knotty
adj 1: 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" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty,
problematic, problematical, tough]
2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn:
gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed]
3: 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,
knotty, tangled, tortuous]
4: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
"snarled thread" [syn: knotty, snarled, snarly]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Knotty \Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. Knottier; superl. Knottiest.]
1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty
timber; a knotty rope.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [R.] --Rewe.
[1913 Webster]
3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
[1913 Webster]
A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for knotty:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Byzantine, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, beyond one, brutal, burled, complex, complicated, crabbed, cramp, critical, daedal, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful, elaborate, exacting, formidable, garbled, gnarled, gnarly, gordian, hairy, hard, hard to understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, intricate, involved, jawbreaking, jumbled, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knurled, knurly, laborious, labyrinthine, lumpy, mean, no picnic, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, not easy, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, operose, overtechnical, perplexed, rigorous, rough, rugged, scrambled, set with thorns, severe, sophisticated, spiny, steep, sticky, strenuous, studded, terrible, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, torose, tough, tricky, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, uphill, wicked |
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Common Misspellings > |
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