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English to English adjective
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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | | Example: a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
source: wordnet30
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used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | | Example: gnarled and knotted hands
a knobbed stick
source: wordnet30
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highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | | Example: 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
tortuous legal procedures
tortuous negotiations lasting for months
source: wordnet30
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tangled in knots or snarls | | Example: a mass of knotted string
snarled thread
source: wordnet30
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