knotty
Adjective
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Adjective
knotty (comparative knottier, superlative knottiest)
- Full of knots.
- knotty pine
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I Scene 2
- If thou murmur'st, I will rend an oak
- And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
- Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
- Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult.
- Synonyms: intricate, thorny
- a knotty problem
- Italian: nodoso
- Russian: сучкова́тый
- Spanish: nudoso
- Russian: запу́танный
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