Tra từ knotty - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. making great mental demands;
hard to comprehend or solve or believe (Freq. 1)
- a baffling problem
- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
- a problematic situation at home
• Syn:
baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough
• Similar to:
difficult, hard
• Derivationally related forms:
toughness (for: tough), problem (for: problematical), problem (for: problematic), knottiness
2. 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
• Syn:
Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous
• Similar to:
complex
• Derivationally related forms:
tortuousness (for: tortuous), knottiness
3. used of old persons or old trees;
covered with knobs or knots
- gnarled and knotted hands
- a knobbed stick
• Syn:
gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed
• Similar to:
crooked
• Derivationally related forms:
gnarl (for: gnarly)
4. tangled in knots or snarls
- a mass of knotted string
- snarled thread
• Syn:
snarled, snarly
• Similar to:
tangled
• Derivationally related forms:
snarl (for: snarly), knot