Knotty Definition

nŏtē
knottier, knottiest
adjective
knottier, knottiest
Having or full of knots.
A knotty board.
Webster's New World
Covered with knots or knobs; gnarled.
American Heritage
Hard to solve or explain; puzzling.
A knotty problem.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Knotty

Adjective

Base Form:
knotty
Comparative:
knottier
Superlative:
knottiest

Origin of Knotty

  • knot +‎ -y

    From Wiktionary

Knotty Sentence Examples

  • Primarily, it was Jerome Shipton's severed climbing rope that remained a knotty question that wouldn't go away.

  • Their obscure and knotty language only serves to give peculiar brilliancy to the not uncommon passages of noble perspicacity.

  • In addition to having specific grades of cedar, siding is further divided into clear and knotty varieties.

  • If you don't pull enough string through initially, the string will wrap around the tuning peg too many times creating a knotty mess.

  • Short-term funding and lack of full cost recovery are particularly knotty problems.

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Words Starting With

KKNKNO

Words Ending With

YTYTTY

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With K6 Letter Words Ending With Y