- knotty
- adj1. gnarled, gnarly, nodose, lumpy, bumpy; knarry, knurled, knarred; warped, contorted, distorted, cross-grained; bossy, protuberant, carun-culated; coarse, rough, uneven, unpolished, flawed, blemished.2. tangled, entangled, raveled, twisted, convoluted, involute, mazelike, labyrinthine; anfractuous, sinuous, tortuous, winding; jumbled up, garbled, chaotic; complex, intricate, Byzantine, complicated, kaleidoscopic, daedal; perplexing, mystifying, baffling, puzzling, enigmatic; arduous, difficult, thorny, trying, tough; formidable, Herculean, obscure, crabbed, unfathomable, Inf. tough to figure, Inf. nasty.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.