Knotty Synonyms and Antonyms

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Difficult to understand
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. troublesome
  2. tricky
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. byzantine
  2. convoluted
  3. involved
  4. tangled
  5. tortuous
Tangled in knots or snarls
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. snarled
  2. snarly

Knotty Sentence Examples

  • Primarily, it was Jerome Shipton's severed climbing rope that remained a knotty question that wouldn't go away.

  • Their obscure and knotty language only serves to give peculiar brilliancy to the not uncommon passages of noble perspicacity.

  • In addition to having specific grades of cedar, siding is further divided into clear and knotty varieties.

  • If you don't pull enough string through initially, the string will wrap around the tuning peg too many times creating a knotty mess.

  • Short-term funding and lack of full cost recovery are particularly knotty problems.

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