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Meaning of 'knotty' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Knotty [ superl.]
- Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
- Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
- Difficult; intricate; perplexed.

Meaning of 'knotty' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . knotty [ s]
Meaning (1):
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
Example in sentence:
  • a baffling problem;
  • a problematic situation at home;
  • I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
Meaning (2):
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Example in sentence:
  • a knobbed stick;
  • gnarled and knotted hands
Meaning (3):
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Example in sentence:
  • a knotty problem;
  • Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship;
  • convoluted legal language;
  • convoluted reasoning;
  • got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering;
  • Oh, what a tangled web we weave;
  • the Byzantine tax structure;
  • the plot was too involved;
  • tortuous legal procedures;
  • tortuous negotiations lasting for months
Meaning (4):
- tangled in knots or snarls
Example in sentence:
  • a mass of knotted string;
  • snarled thread

Nearby Words:

knob knobbed knobber knobbing knobbler knobbling fire knobby knobstick knock knock-knee

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