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English adjective: knotty | |||
| 1. | knotty making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | ||
| Samples | A baffling problem. I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast. A problematic situation at home. | ||
| Synonyms | baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough | ||
| Similar | difficult, hard | ||
| Antonyms | easy | ||
| 2. | knotty used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | ||
| Samples | Gnarled and knotted hands. A knobbed stick. | ||
| Synonyms | gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted | ||
| Similar | crooked | ||
| Antonyms | straight | ||
| 3. | knotty highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous | ||
| Similar | complex | ||
| Antonyms | simple | ||
| 4. | knotty tangled in knots or snarls | ||
| Samples | A mass of knotted string. Snarled thread. | ||
| Synonyms | snarled, snarly | ||
| Similar | tangled | ||
| Antonyms | untangled | ||
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