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Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

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  1. superl. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
  2. superl. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
  3. superl. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
  4. adj. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
  5. adj. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
  6. adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
  7. adj. tangled in knots or snarls
  8. j:100 s. tangled in knots or snarls