Knotty
['nɒtɪ] or ['nɑti]
Definition
(adj.) tangled in knots or snarls; 'a mass of knotted string'; 'snarled thread' .
Editor: Robert--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Spence
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Knotted, gnarled, full of knots, knaggy, knurly.[2]. Intricate, difficult, perplexing, embarrassing, hard, troublesome.
Checker: Roy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tough, bard, difficult, complicated
ANT:Plain, simple, easy, obvious
Edited by Albert
Examples
- It was but a short time thereafter that he solved the knotty problem by an invention mentioned in a previous chapter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This proved to be a most knotty and intricate puzzle--tricky and evasive--always leading on and promising something, and at the last slipping away leaving the work undone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Two or three times, the matter in hand became so knotty, that the jackal found it imperative on him to get up, and steep his towels anew. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checked by Irving