2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knotty \Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. {Knottier}; superl. {Knottiest}.]
1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as knotty
timber; a knotty rope.
2. Hard; rugged; as a knotty head.[R.] --Rewe.
3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
knotty
adj 1: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a
baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what
to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at
home" [syn: {baffling}, {problematic}, {problematical}]
2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
[syn: {gnarled}, {gnarly}, {knotted}, {knobbed}]
3: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure";
"convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "an
intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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}, {intricate}, {involved}, {labyrinthine}, {tangled},
{tortuous}]
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