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 →

2) (of a problem) hard to sort out, tangled. tree →

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 →
• The camel waved his knotty legs. tree →
• This is a knotty question; we must think hard. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.