Knotty Definition & Meaning
knotty
- 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"
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
- 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"
- tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
"Knotty" in song lyrics
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"Full beam on ya knotty"
Fatal Hussein — Friday -
"Or I'll 6 and 7 piece ya, leave ya forehead all knotty"
Freddie Foxxx — Inside Your Head -
"Matters worse, the situations knotty"
FunkDoobiest — It Ain't Goin Down
Words that rhyme with knotty
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