knotty

/nˈɑti/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
   “a baffling problem”
2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
   “gnarled and knotted hands”
3. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious- Sir Walter Scott
   “the Byzantine tax structure”
4. tangled in knots or snarls
   “a mass of knotted string”

Synonyms for knotty

• baffling
• elusive
• problematic
• problematical
• tough
• difficult
• gnarled
• gnarly
• knotted
• knobbed
• crooked
• Byzantine
• convoluted
• involved
• tangled
• tortuous
• complex
• snarled
• snarly

Words that rhyme with knotty

• potty
• dotty
• spotty
• karate
• literati
• squatty
• ammirati
• andreotti
• benenati
• beninati
• bhatti
• bilotti
• bugatti
• candiotti
• capriati
• cotty
• crotty
• delligatti
• donati
• dottie
• galati
• galotti
• gotti
• hlavaty
• jereissati
• lahti
• lanzelotti
• lottie
• lotty
• maserati