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

1. superlative. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
2. superlative. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
3. superlative. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
4. adjective. tangled in knots or snarls

   "a mass of knotted string"

   "snarled thread"

   Synonyms: snarled, snarly

5. 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"

   Synonyms: baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough

6. adjective. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious- Sir Walter Scott

   "the Byzantine tax structure"

   "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"

   Synonyms: byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous

7. adjective. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

   "gnarled and knotted hands"

   "a knobbed stick"

   Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted

Synonyms

snarled, snarly, baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough, byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous, gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted

Common word forms

knottier, knottily, knottiest

Words from these letters

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