knotty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.

   “I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]”

2. sıfat Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.

   “a knotty pine”

3. sıfat Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.

   “a knotty problem”

4. sıfat Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.

   “[…] I may erre perhaps in ſoothing my ſelfe that this preſent truth reviv'd, vvill deſerve on all hands to be not ſiniſterly receiv'd, […] but vvith a ſmooth and pleaſing leſſon, vvhich receiv'd hath the vertue to ſoften and diſpell rooted and knotty ſorrovves: […]”