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knotty

/'nɑti/

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adjective
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
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"I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"

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baffling elusive problematic problematical tough difficult hard
adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
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"a knotty problem"

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byzantine convoluted involved tangled tortuous complex
adjective
tangled in knots or snarls
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snarled snarly tangled
adjective
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
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gnarled gnarly knobbed knotted crooked

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hard difficult tough involved complex knot crooked tangled elusive problematic gnarly byzantine knotted baffling gnarled convoluted snarly snarled tortuous knobbed problematical knottiness