making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe;
\\\"a baffling problem\\\"
\\\"I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast\\\"
\\\"a problematic situation at home\\\"
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;
\\\"gnarled and knotted hands\\\"
\\\"a knobbed stick\\\"
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
\\\"the Byzantine tax structure\\\"
\\\"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship\\\"
\\\"convoluted legal language\\\"
\\\"convoluted reasoning\\\"
\\\"the plot was too involved\\\"
\\\"a knotty problem\\\"
\\\"got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering\\\"
\\\"Oh, what a tangled web we weave\\\"
\\\"tortuous legal procedures\\\"
\\\"tortuous negotiations lasting for months\\\"
tangled in knots or snarls;
\\\"a mass of knotted string\\\"
\\\"snarled thread\\\"
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
This is a knotty passage. 這是一段復雜難懂的文字。
She met with a lot of knotty problems. 她碰上了許多棘手的問題。
It is almost impossible to skirt the knotty problem. 想回避這個棘手的問題幾乎是不可能的。
常用短語
knotty tear
不連續撕裂
knotty tearing
曲折撕裂
knotty pine
多結松木
knotty gneiss
瘤狀片麻巖
knotty problem
難題
knotty wood
多節木料
a knotty point
難題
組詞
Make..Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end.