KNOTTY Synonyms

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• bristling with perplexities

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• rolled longitudinally upon itself

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• connected by participation or association or use

• entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• emotionally involved

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• enveloped

• open to doubt or debate

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts

• a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

• a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

• (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

• a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

• difficult to analyze or understand

• difficult to analyze or understand

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• marked by complexity and richness of detail

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• work out in detail

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• not clear to the understanding

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• causing difficulty or annoyance

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it

• of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

• a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• difficult to describe

• skillful at eluding capture

• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots