knotty

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Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult

a knotty problem.

Full of knots

knotty pine.

{a} full of knots, hard, difficult
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head
Difficult; intricate; perplexed
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope
Knotty wood has a lot of small hard areas on it where branches once grew
{s} full of knots, full of loops and tangles that are hard to unravel; hard to solve, puzzling
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
A knotty problem is complicated and difficult to solve. The new management team faces some knotty problems. = thorny
highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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"
knotty pine
pine lumber with many knots; used especially for paneling and furniture
knotty pine
Pine wood with a large number of knots, used especially for paneling and furniture
knottily
{a} in a knotty manner, ruggedly
knottily
intricately, in a complicated manner
knotty
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