knotty

Meaning of knotty

adjective
  1. full of knots.
    panelling in knotty pine
  2. extremely difficult or complex.
    a knotty legal problem

Information about knotty

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of knotty

knotty

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • knotty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

knotty synonyms

Meaning baffling:

baffling, problematic, problematical, tough

Meaning gnarled:

gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed

Meaning Byzantine:

Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous

Meaning knotted:

knotted, snarled, snarly

Meaning having lumps which give a misshapen appearance:

knobbly

Meaning full of or covered with lumps:

lumpy

Meaning (of a surface) uneven, with many patches raised above the rest:

bumpy

Meaning (of ground or terrain) having a broken, rocky, and uneven surface:

rugged

Meaning having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level:

rough

Meaning rough or harsh in texture:

coarse

Meaning having or characterized by hard or tight lumps; knotty:

nodose

Meaning forced out of its natural or proper shape; crumpled:

twisted

Meaning cause to become twisted together with or caught in:

entangled

Meaning untangle or unravel something:

ravelled

Meaning (especially of hair, wool, or fur) tangled into a thick mass:

matted

Meaning not easy to analyse or understand; complicated or intricate:

complex

Meaning consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements; intricate:

complicated

Meaning very complicated or detailed:

intricate

Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:

difficult

Meaning requiring a great deal of endurance or effort:

hard

Meaning causing distress, difficulty, or trouble:

thorny

Meaning physically or mentally demanding:

taxing

Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:

awkward

Meaning (of a task, problem, etc.) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward:

tricky

Meaning causing difficulty or annoyance:

troublesome

Meaning completely baffling; very puzzling:

perplexing

Meaning utterly bewildering or perplexing:

mystifying

Meaning not discovered or known about; uncertain:

obscure

Meaning incapable of being fully explored or understood:

unfathomable

Meaning unable to be answered:

unanswerable

Meaning impossible to solve:

insoluble

Meaning impossible to pass through or enter:

impenetrable

Meaning involved or intricate:

involute

Meaning complicated or abstruse:

involuted

knotty antonyms

Meaning uncomplicated and easy to do or understand:

straightforward

Meaning easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty:

simple

Words that rhyme with knotty

botty, Scotty, cotty, scotty, Dotty, dotty, Peggotty, bigotty, shotty, piotty, jotty, Lotty, blotty, clotty, plotty, motty, snotty, unknotty, potty, spotty, sunspotty, Crotty, grotty, trotty, totty

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