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# knotty

«knotty» in Mova's school dictionary: **Full of knots, or lumpy and twisted, like old wood or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (knottier, knottiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Full of knots, or lumpy and twisted, like old wood or rough legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knotty/#m1)

2) (of a problem) hard to sort out, tangled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knotty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, legs or necks that look lumpy and clumsy; in lessons, a puzzle that takes thought to untangle

### examples

- The old tree had knotty roots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knotty/#x1)
- The camel waved his knotty legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knotty/#x2)
- This is a knotty question; we must think hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knotty/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; «knotty» describes how hard or lumpy something is, not an amount, so it changes no count

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «knotty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knotty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.