knottyadjective
uk/ˈnɒt.i/us/ˈnɑː.t̬i/knotty adjective (COMPLICATED)
informal (of a problem or difficulty) complicated and difficult to solve:
It was a very knotty problem.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- unwieldy
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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knotty adjective (WOOD)
with a lot of knots:
a knotty piece of wood
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Types of wood
- balsa wood
- bark
- close-grained
- cork
- ebony
- jelutong
- lumber
- matchwood
- MDF
- mulga
- oak
- oaken
- pine
- plywood
- rosewood
- three-ply
- wood
- wood pulp
- wooden
- yew
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