Dictionary Entry
knotty
knotty is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
- 2superlative
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
- 3superlative
Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
- 4adjective
tangled in knots or snarls
"a mass of knotted string"
"snarled thread"
- 5adjective
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"
- 6adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious- Sir Walter Scott
"the Byzantine tax structure"
"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
- 7adjective
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
"gnarled and knotted hands"
"a knobbed stick"
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