Meaning of "knotty" : Online English Dictionary : Word Search by Wordhut.com

Meaning of knotty

1. (adj.sat.) 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"

2. (adj.sat.) 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

3. (adj.sat.) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"

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