eng: knotty

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Meaning
means	(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" baffling, problematic, problematical, knotty, elusive, tough
means	(adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" gnarled, knotted, knobbed, knotty, gnarly
means	(adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "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" Byzantine, tangled, convoluted, knotty, involved, tortuous
means	(adjective) tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" snarly, snarled, knotty