| ADJECTIVE | all | knotty, baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough | making great mental demands |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | knotty, gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed | used of old persons or old trees | |
| all | knotty, Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | |
| all | knotty, snarled, snarly | tangled in knots or snarls |
| Sounds | naa'tiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast" | |
| Synonyms | baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough | |
| Broader | difficult, hard | not easy |
| Spanish | desconcertante, espinoso, problemático | |
| Catalan | problemàtic | |
| Nouns | knottiness | puzzling complexity |
| Meaning | Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed | |
| Broader | crooked | Having or marked by bends or angles |
| Spanish | nudoso, torcido | |
| Catalan | nodós, nuós, torçat | |
| Meaning | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a knotty problem" | |
| Synonyms | Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous | |
| Broader | complex | complicated in structure |
| Spanish | bizantino, intrincado, laberíntico, tortuoso | |
| Nouns | knottiness | puzzling complexity |
| Meaning | tangled in knots or snarls. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | snarled, snarly | |
| Broader | tangled | In a confused mass |
| Spanish | enmarañado, enredado | |
| Catalan | embullat, enredat | |
| Nouns | knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
| knot | something twisted and tight and swollen | |
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