knotty

[knot·ty]

Whether it’s pine or problems, sometimes the word knotty can apply to both. Knotty can describe something that has a lot of knots, either literally or figuratively.

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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

Adjective 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"

Adjective 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

Adjective S.
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"


superl.
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

superl.
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.

superl.
Difficult; intricate; perplexed.


Knotty

Knot"ty , a. [Compar. Knottier ; superl. Knottiest.] 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] Rewe. 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
A knotty point to which we now proceed

Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

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