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List of meaning for knotty

full of knots, tangles, or lumps

baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough(adj)

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"

gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed(adj)

used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

"gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"

Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous(adj)

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"

knotty, snarled, snarly(adj)

tangled in knots or snarls

"a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"

having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated

the knotty problems that arise when every nation is part of the global marketplace

requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling

the candidates cautiously gave their views on an array of knotty issues

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