参考词典中knotty的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 有结的,多节的,多瘤的,棘手的
词形变化
- 比较级:knot·ti·er, knot·ti·est名 词:knot'ti·ness
参考例句
- He delights to worry out knotty points in English.
他以绞尽脑汁来解决盘根错节般的项语问题为乐。
- He delights to worry out knotty points in English.
英英解释
4个形容词解释
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
[同] knotty, baffling, problematic, problematical, tough
[例]- a baffling problem
- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
- a problematic situation at home
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
[同] gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty
[例]- gnarled and knotted hands
- a knobbed stick
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- highly complex or intricate
[同] convoluted, involved, knotty, byzantine, tangled, tortuous
[例]- the Byzantine tax structure
- 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
- tangled in knots or snarls
[同] knotted, knotty, snarled, snarly
[例]- a mass of knotted string
- snarled thread
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