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| 1. | [ adjective ] making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve | |
| Synonyms: | baffling problematical problematic | |
| Examples: | "a baffling problem" "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast" "a problematic situation at home" |
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| Related terms: | difficult | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | |
| Synonyms: | gnarly knotted knobbed gnarled | |
| Examples: | "gnarled and knotted hands" "a knobbed stick" |
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| Related terms: | crooked | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] highly involved or intricate | |
| Synonyms: | intricate tortuous tangled involved labyrinthine convoluted Byzantine | |
| Examples: | "the Byzantine tax structure" "convoluted reasoning" "intricate needlework" "the plot was too involved" "a knotty problem" "labyrinthine maneuvering" "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott |
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| Related terms: | complex | |
| Similar spelling: |
Knott knot Knutt knut knit Knuth knout |
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