knotty

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knotty Definition

• (s) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
• (s) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
• (s) highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by lab

knotty Synonyms

• baffling
• Byzantine
• convoluted
• gnarled
• gnarly
• intricate
• involved
• knobbed
• knotted
• knotty
• labyrinthine
• problematic
• problematical
• tangled
• tortuous