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adjectivemaking great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
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adjectivehighly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
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adjectivetangled in knots or snarls
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adjectiveused of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Examples of knotty
- "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"
- "a knotty problem"