knotty

knot·ty

K0093200 (nŏt′ē)adj. knot·ti·er, knot·ti·est 1. Tied or snarled in knots.2. Covered with knots or knobs; gnarled.3. Difficult to understand or solve: "[The columnist] supplies funny, wise responses to knotty ethical dilemmas posed by readers" (David Pogue).

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knot′ti·ness n.

knotty

(ˈnɒtɪ) adj, -tier or -tiest1. (of wood, rope, etc) full of or characterized by knots2. extremely difficult or intricate ˈknottily adv ˈknottiness n

knot•ty

(ˈnɒt i)

adj. -ti•er, -ti•est. 1. having or full of knots. 2. involved, intricate, or difficult. [1200–50] knot′ti•ness, n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	knotty - 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"baffling, problematic, problematical, elusive, toughdifficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
	2.	knotty - used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knottedcrooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
	3.	knotty - 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"tortuous, convoluted, tangled, Byzantine, involvedcomplex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
	4.	knotty - tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"snarled, snarlytangled - in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"

knotty

adjective1. puzzling, hard, difficult, complex, complicated, tricky, baffling, intricate, troublesome, perplexing, mystifying, thorny, problematical The new management team faces some knotty problems.2. knotted, rough, rugged, bumpy, gnarled, knobby, nodular the knotty trunk of a hawthorn tree

knotty

adjectiveDifficult to understand because of intricacy:byzantine, complex, complicated, convoluted, daedal, Daedalian, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, labyrinthine, tangled.

Translations

有结的棘手的

knot

(not) noun1. a lump or join made in string, rope etc by twisting the ends together and drawing tight the loops formed. She fastened the string round the parcel, tying it with a knot. 結 结2. a lump in wood at the join between a branch and the trunk. This wood is full of knots. (樹木的)節 （树木的）节 3. a group or gathering. a small knot of people 一群 一小群4. a measure of speed for ships (about 1.85 km per hour). 海浬 海里 verb – past tense, past particple ˈknotted – to tie in a knot. He knotted the rope around the post. 打結綁住 把...打结，捆扎 ˈknotty adjective1. containing knots. 有結的 有结的2. (of a problem etc) difficult. a knotty problem. 棘手的 棘手的