English to English
adjective
- Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Gnarled and knotted hands.
A knobbed stick.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- tangled in knots or snarls
A mass of knotted string.
Snarled thread.
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
adj
- [nóti] Mabuhól
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
