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knotty 音标拼音: [n'ɑti]
a. 有结的,多节的,多瘤的,棘手的 有结的,多节的,多瘤的,棘手的 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { Byzantine}, { convoluted}, { involved}, { knotty}, { tangled}, { tortuous}] 4: tangled in knots or snarls; " a mass of knotted string"; " snarled thread" [ synonym: { knotty}, { snarled}, { snarly}] Knotty \ Knot" ty\, a. [ Compar. { Knottier}; superl. { Knottiest}.] 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [ R.] -- Rewe. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. [ 1913 Webster] A knotty point to which we now proceed -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 88 Moby Thesaurus words for " knotty": Byzantine, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, beyond one, brutal, burled, complex, complicated, crabbed, cramp, critical, daedal, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful, elaborate, exacting, formidable, garbled, gnarled, gnarly, gordian, hairy, hard, hard to understand, hard- earned, hard- fought, intricate, involved, jawbreaking, jumbled, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knurled, knurly, laborious, labyrinthine, lumpy, mean, no picnic, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, not easy, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, operose, overtechnical, perplexed, rigorous, rough, rugged, scrambled, set with thorns, severe, sophisticated, spiny, steep, sticky, strenuous, studded, terrible, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, torose, tough, tricky, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, uphill, wicked
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