knotty

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

knottiermore knotty

Superlative

knottiestmost knotty

1.
Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
2.
Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
a knotty pine
3.
(figuratively)Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
a knotty problem
Đồng nghĩa: intricate, thorny, complex, complexed, complicate, complicated, convoluted, Gordian, involute, intricate, involutional, involved, knotty, labyrinthal, labyrinthine, manifold
4.
(figuratively)Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

intricate thornycomplexcomplexedcomplicate complicated convolutedGordianinvoluteinvolutionalinvolvedlabyrinthallabyrinthine manifold

Trái nghĩa

simple uncomplicated

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unknottyknottilyknottinessKnotty Ashknotknotting

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English knotti, knottycnotti, from knotte (knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake) (from Old English cnotta (knot), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (knot), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gned- (to bind)) + -i. The English word may be analysed as knot + -y.