knotty
英 ['n?t?]
美['nɑti]
- adj. 棘手的，難解決的；[木] 多節(jié)的；有結(jié)的
英英釋意
- 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"
- 2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;
- "gnarled and knotted hands"
- "a knobbed stick"
- 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"