knotty
معنی فارسی
پرگره گره دار پيچيده بسته دشوار
معنی کامل و مثال‌ها
/-ē/adj.
● پر گره، قلمبه‌دار، گره‌ناک
a knotty board
تخته‌ی پرگره
a knotty old oak tree
درخت بلوط کهنسال و گره‌گره
● دشوار، بغرنج، پر از گرفتگی و اشکال، هاج و واج کننده، هاجگر
a knotty problem
مسئله‌ی بغرنج
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Middle English 'knotty', from Old English 'cnotta' (knot).
مثال
- The knotty rope was difficult to untie.
- She faced a knotty problem that required careful consideration.
- The knotty issue divided the committee.
ترکیب‌های رایج
Knotty problem Knotty issue Knotty wood Knotty rope
تعریف انگلیسی
- 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”
- 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”
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots “gnarled and knotted hands” “a knobbed stick”
- tangled in knots or snarls “a mass of knotted string” “snarled thread”
مترادف‌ها
adjective
1. Knotted, gnarled, full of knots, knaggy, knurly.
2. Intricate, difficult, perplexing, embarrassing, hard, troublesome, involved.