Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

ADJECTIVE 4

1. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

   • “a baffling problem”
   • “I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast”
   • “a problematic situation at home”
   Synonymsbafflingelusiveproblematicproblematicaltough

2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

   • “gnarled and knotted hands”
   • “a knobbed stick”
   Synonymsgnarledgnarlyknottedknobbed

3. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

   • “the Byzantine tax structure”
   • “Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship”
   • “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"- Sir Walter Scott”
   • “tortuous legal procedures”
   • “tortuous negotiations lasting for months”
   SynonymsByzantineconvolutedinvolvedtangledtortuous

4. tangled in knots or snarls

   • “a mass of knotted string”
   • “snarled thread”
   Synonymssnarledsnarly