English to English adjective
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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | | Example: a baffling problem I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast a problematic situation at home
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used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | | Example: gnarled and knotted hands a knobbed stick
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highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | | Example: 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
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tangled in knots or snarls | | Example: a mass of knotted string snarled thread
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