3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Knotty \Knot"ty\, a. [Compar. {Knottier}; superl. {Knottiest}.] 1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. [1913 Webster] 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [R.] --Rewe. [1913 Webster] 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. [1913 Webster] A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: knotty adj 1: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: {baffling}, {problematic}, {problematical}] 2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn: {gnarled}, {gnarly}, {knotted}, {knobbed}] 3: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {intricate}, {involved}, {labyrinthine}, {tangled}, {tortuous}] [also: {knottiest}, {knottier}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: knottier See {knotty}
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