adjective
- full of knots; having many knots
- difficult to solve or understand; complicated
Examples
- The old oak tree had a knotty trunk covered in bumps.
- She worked with knotty pine wood for the cabin walls.
- The math problem was particularly knotty and took hours to solve.
- The committee faced a knotty issue about budget allocation.
- His knotty hair was difficult to comb after swimming.
- The detective encountered a knotty case with few clues.
- The knotty rope was hard to untangle.