knotty

CET-4

a. 有结的, 多节的, 多瘤的, 棘手的

发音

UK /ˈnɒti/
US /ˈnɑti/
US /-ɾi/

词形变化

knottier 比较级 knottier knottiest more knotty 比较级 knottiest 最高级 most knotty 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

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

    a knotty pine

  3. 3.

    Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.

    比喻

    a knotty problem

  4. 4.

    Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.

    比喻

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

tough involved tangled elusive problematic gnarly baffling byzantine knotted convoluted

近义相关 5

hard difficult complex crooked tangled

相关短语

Knotty Ash

词源

From Middle English knotti, knotty (“having a knot in it; full of knots; tied together (?); resembling a knot, knotlike; having knobs or protuberances; bulging, convex; of a tree, branch, etc.: full of knots, gnarled; of a plant cutting to be grafted or planted: full of buds or eyes; having joints (?); having swollen joints; of flesh: glandular; of flesh: granular, lumpy, especially, having many swellings; mangy, scurfy (?); having pimples (?); of cauterization: carried out on glandular tissue; (figuratively) of a question or problem: difficult, intricate”) [and other forms], from knotte (“knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake”) (from Old English cnotta (“knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gned- (“to bind”)) + -i (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). The English word may be analysed as knot + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). Cognates * Dutch knoestig (“knotty”) * German knotig (“knotty”) * Swedish knotig, knutig (“knotty”)

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