knotty

knot·ty  (nt)

adj. knot·ti·er, knot·ti·est

1. Tied or snarled in knots.

2. Covered with knots or knobs; gnarled.

3. Difficult to understand or solve. See Synonyms at complex.

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knotti·ness n.

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knotty [ˈnɒtɪ]

adj -tier, -tiest

1. (of wood, rope, etc.) full of or characterized by knots

2. extremely difficult or intricate

knottily  adv

knottiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	knotty - 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" baffling, problematic, problematical, elusive, tough difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
	2.	knotty - used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
	3.	knotty - 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" tortuous, convoluted, tangled, Byzantine, involved complex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
	4.	knotty - tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" snarled, snarly tangled - in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"

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knotty

adjective

1. puzzling, hard, difficult, complex, complicated, tricky, baffling, intricate, troublesome, perplexing, mystifying, thorny, problematical The new management team faces some knotty problems.

2. knotted, rough, rugged, bumpy, gnarled, knobby, nodular the knotty trunk of a hawthorn tree

Translations

knotty [ˈnɒtɪ] ADJ (knottier (compar) (knottiest (superl))) [wood] → nudoso (fig) [problem] → espinoso

knotty [ˈnɒti] adj

[problem, question] → épineux/euse

[wood, trunk] → noueux/euse

knotty

adj (+er) wood → astreich, knorrig; veins, rope → knotig; problem → verwickelt, verzwickt (inf)

knotty [ˈnɒtɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (wood) → nodoso/a (fig) (problem) → spinoso/a

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knotty [ˈnɒtɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (wood) → nodoso/a (fig) (problem) → spinoso/a