Found 2 items, similar to knottiest.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: knottiest
knotty
adj 1: 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” [syn:
baffling,
problematic,
problematical]
2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
knots;
“gnarled and knotted hands”;
“a knobbed stick”
[syn:
gnarled,
gnarly,
knotted,
knobbed]
3: 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” [syn:
Byzantine,
convoluted,
intricate,
involved,
labyrinthine,
tangled,
tortuous]
[also:
knottiest,
knottier]
knottiest
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knotty
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Knottiest
Knotty
\Knot"ty\, a. [Compar.
Knottier; superl.
Knottiest.]
1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty
timber; a knotty rope.
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2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [R.] --Rewe.
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3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
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A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope.
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