knotty
adjective
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
a baffling problem
Related & opposite
- formidability derivation
- complicatedness derivation
- problem derivation
- difficult similar to
Sense 2 adjective
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
gnarled and knotted hands
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Sense 3 adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
the Byzantine tax structure
Related & opposite
- complicatedness derivation
- complex similar to
Sense 4 adjective
tangled in knots or snarls
a mass of knotted string
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | formidability |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | complicatedness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | problem |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | difficult |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gnarl |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | crooked |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | complicatedness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | complex |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | knot |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | maze |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | gnarl |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | tangled |