Knotty - Definition
knotty
adj 1: 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]
2: 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]
3: 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]
4: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
"snarled thread" [syn: knotty, snarled, snarly]