knotty 音标拼音: [n'ɑti]
a . 有结的,多节的,多瘤的,棘手的
有结的,多节的,多瘤的,棘手的
knotty adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
baffling }, {
elusive }, {
knotty },
{
problematic }, {
problematical }, {
tough }]
2 :
used of old persons or old trees ;
covered with knobs or knots ; "
gnarled and knotted hands "; "
a knobbed stick " [
synonym :
{
gnarled }, {
gnarly }, {
knotted }, {
knotty }, {
knobbed }]
3 :
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 " [
synonym : {
Byzantine }, {
convoluted }, {
involved },
{
knotty }, {
tangled }, {
tortuous }]
4 :
tangled in knots or snarls ; "
a mass of knotted string ";
"
snarled thread " [
synonym : {
knotty }, {
snarled }, {
snarly }]
Knotty \
Knot "
ty \,
a . [
Compar . {
Knottier };
superl . {
Knottiest }.]
1 .
Full of knots ;
knotted ;
having many knots ;
as ,
knotty timber ;
a knotty rope .
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2 .
Hard ;
rugged ;
as ,
a knotty head . [
R .] --
Rewe .
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3 .
Difficult ;
intricate ;
perplexed .
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A knotty point to which we now proceed --
Pope .
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88 Moby Thesaurus words for "
knotty ":
Byzantine ,
Herculean ,
abstruse ,
arduous ,
beyond one ,
brutal ,
burled ,
complex ,
complicated ,
crabbed ,
cramp ,
critical ,
daedal ,
delicate ,
demanding ,
difficile ,
difficult ,
effortful ,
elaborate ,
exacting ,
formidable ,
garbled ,
gnarled ,
gnarly ,
gordian ,
hairy ,
hard ,
hard to understand ,
hard -
earned ,
hard -
fought ,
intricate ,
involved ,
jawbreaking ,
jumbled ,
knobbed ,
knobbly ,
knobby ,
knoblike ,
knotted ,
knurled ,
knurly ,
laborious ,
labyrinthine ,
lumpy ,
mean ,
no picnic ,
nodal ,
noded ,
nodiform ,
nodose ,
nodular ,
nodulated ,
noduled ,
not easy ,
nubbled ,
nubbly ,
nubby ,
obfuscated ,
obscure ,
obscured ,
operose ,
overtechnical ,
perplexed ,
rigorous ,
rough ,
rugged ,
scrambled ,
set with thorns ,
severe ,
sophisticated ,
spiny ,
steep ,
sticky ,
strenuous ,
studded ,
terrible ,
thorny ,
ticklish ,
toilsome ,
torose ,
tough ,
tricky ,
tubercular ,
tuberculous ,
tuberose ,
tuberous ,
uphill ,
wicked
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