Knottiest

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.
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     2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. [R.] --Rewe.


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     3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
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              A knotty point to which we now proceed --Pope.
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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]:

  knottiest
       See {knotty}