KNOTTY

knotty, snarled, snarly

(adjective) tangled in knots or snarls; “a mass of knotted string”; “snarled thread”

baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough

(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”

Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous

(adjective) 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”

gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed

(adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; “gnarled and knotted hands”; “a knobbed stick”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

knotty (comparative knottier or more knotty, superlative knottiest or most knotty)

Full of knots.

Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult.

Synonyms: intricate, thorny

Source: Wiktionary

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Knot"ty, a. [Compar. Knottier; superl. Knottiest.]

1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] Rewe.

3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. A knotty point to which we now proceed Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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