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knotty Definition
(s)
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
"
(s)
used
of
old
persons
or
old
trees
;
covered
with
knobs
or
knots
; "
gnarled
and
knotted
hands
"; "
a
knobbed
stick
"
(s)
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
knotty Synonyms
baffling
Byzantine
convoluted
gnarled
gnarly
intricate
involved
knobbed
knotted
knotty
labyrinthine
problematic
problematical
tangled
tortuous
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