knotty : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: knotty	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for knotty
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
knotty adj 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(s): baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" Synonym(s): gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed 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(s): Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" Synonym(s): knotty, snarled, snarly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knotty \Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. {Knottier}; superl. {Knottiest}.] 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] --Rewe. 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope.