'Knotty' definitions:

Definition of 'knotty'

From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough]
adjective
Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed]
adjective
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, knotty, tangled, tortuous]
adjective
Tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" [syn: knotty, snarled, snarly]

Definition of 'Knotty'

From: GCIDE
  • Knotty \Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. Knottier; superl. Knottiest.]
  • 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [R.] --Rewe. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. [1913 Webster]
  • A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope. [1913 Webster]

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