Adjective: knotty (knottier,knottiest) nó-tee
- Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend, solve or believe
"I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast";
- baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough
- Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
"a knotty problem";
- Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous, labyrinthine
- Tangled in knots or snarls
"knotty thread";
- snarled, snarly
- (of persons or trees) twisted and rough with knobs or knots
"knotty and knotted hands";
- gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed
Derived forms: knottiest, knottier
See also: complex, crooked, difficult, hard, tangled
Encyclopedia: Knotty