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knotty

/not-ee/US // ˈnɒt i //UK // (ˈnɒtɪ) //

疑难杂症,复杂的,棘手的,棘手的问题

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    knot·ti·er, knot·ti·est.

    • : having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
    • : involved, intricate, or difficult: a knotty problem.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.troublesome

Examples

  • The design — knotty pine floors, swirling ceiling fans, touches of pale blue — strikes just the right tone without screaming “CRAB HOUSE.”

  • Inside, you’ll get knotty pine walls and a renovated farm-style kitchen.

  • It involved a geometric object called the amplituhedron that had been proposed as the answer to one of the knottiest problems in physics.

  • Nebraska just lost a knotty one at Iowa and complained its center struggled with snaps because of clapping from the Iowa sideline.

  • Also in this content collection, get help untangling some of AI’s newest, and knottiest, concepts.

  • For anyone looking to dive into the big, knotty history of one of the most iconic states, this book is well worth the time.

  • The profession remains a knotty tangle of influences and causations and aggravations and insurers.

  • Think of it merely as another knotty problem of logistics to be solved.

  • Our nicely worked out system for supplying the troops has in a moment been tangled up into a hundred knotty problems.

  • The Cuban debts and the future of the Philippines were really the knotty points in the entire debate.

  • De Robeck and Keyes came over from the Triad to unravel knotty points.

  • His envoys had proposed to refer the knotty point to the decision of His Holiness; but 'this they absolutely declined.'

  • Landy Spencer drummed his knotty fingers on the armchair and looked thoughtfully at the old Nestor seated at his fireside.