'Knotty' definitions:
Definition of 'knotty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough]
adjective
Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed]
adjective
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" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous]
adjective
Definition of 'Knotty'
From: GCIDE
- Knotty \Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. Knottier; superl. Knottiest.]
- 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [R.] --Rewe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. [1913 Webster]
- A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'knotty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- beyond one,
- brutal,
- burled,
- Byzantine,
- complex,
- complicated,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- critical,
- daedal,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- elaborate,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- garbled,
- gnarled,
- gnarly,
- gordian,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- Herculean,
- intricate,
- involved,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- knobbed,
- knobbly,
- knobby,
- knoblike,
- knotted,
- knurled,
- knurly,
- laborious,
- labyrinthine,
- lumpy,
- mean,
- no picnic,
- nodal,
- noded,
- nodiform,
- nodose,
- nodular,
- nodulated,
- noduled,
- not easy,
- nubbled,
- nubbly,
- nubby,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- operose,
- overtechnical,
- perplexed,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scrambled,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sophisticated,
- spiny,
- steep,
- sticky,
- strenuous,
- studded,
- terrible,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- torose,
- tough,
- tricky,
- tubercular,
- tuberculous,
- tuberose,
- tuberous,
- uphill,
- wicked