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"roman": "čepat",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
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"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
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"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "kuhmuinen"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "nasḳviani",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "ნასკვიანი"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "ḳvanʒiani",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "კვანძიანი"
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"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ozódis",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "οζώδης"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "cranrach"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nodoso"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "natty"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nodosus"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "mezglains"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "taurekereke"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "noueux"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "knoppijch"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "sękaty"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nodos"
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{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sučkovátyj",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "сучкова́тый"
},
{
"_dis1": "84 13 1 1",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nudoso"
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{
"text": "a knotty pine",
"type": "example"
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"Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly."
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[
"knobs",
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[
"swellings",
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"gnarled",
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"word": "simple"
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"word": "uncomplicated"
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{
"text": "a knotty problem",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker",
"text": "It’s the knottier questions that elicit his cleaving judgments.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult."
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"Complicated",
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"complex",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively)",
"Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult."
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{
"word": "intricate"
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{
"word": "thorny"
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{
"word": "complex"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "složen",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "сложен"
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"roman": "zapleten",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "заплетен"
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"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "ingewikkeld"
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{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "visainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "areul-dareuli",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "არეულ-დარეული"
},
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"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ʒneli",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "ძნელი"
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{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "dysepílytos",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "δυσεπίλυτος"
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{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "polýplokos",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "πολύπλοκος"
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{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dýskolos",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "δύσκολος"
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{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "manganga"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "rīraparapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "whīwhiwhi"
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"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
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"roman": "zapútannyj",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "запу́танный"
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"_dis1": "13 9 75 3",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "knepig"
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"Of an austere or hard nature; rugged."
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"(figuratively)",
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{
"homophone": "naughty (in accents with the cot–caught merger)"
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"homophone": "noddy (with flapping)"
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"word": "Knotty Ash"
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "knutig",
"t": "knotty"
},
"expansion": "knutig (“knotty”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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 *gnod- (“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’).\ncognates\n* Dutch knoestig (“knotty”)\n* German knotig (“knotty”)\n* Swedish knotig, knutig (“knotty”)",
"forms": [
{
"form": "knottier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "more knotty",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "knottiest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "most knotty",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "er",
"2": "more"
},
"expansion": "knotty (comparative knottier or more knotty, superlative knottiest or most knotty)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"knot‧ty"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "knot"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "knotting"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots."
],
"links": [
[
"string",
"string#Noun"
],
[
"stringlike",
"stringlike"
],
[
"full",
"full#Adjective"
],
[
"tied",
"tie#Verb"
],
[
"knots",
"knot#Noun"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a knotty pine",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly."
],
"links": [
[
"part",
"part#Noun"
],
[
"body",
"body#Noun"
],
[
"tree",
"tree#Noun"
],
[
"knobs",
"knob#Noun"
],
[
"swellings",
"swelling#Noun"
],
[
"gnarled",
"gnarled#Adjective"
],
[
"knobbly",
"knobbly"
]
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "simple"
},
{
"word": "uncomplicated"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a knotty problem",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker",
"text": "It’s the knottier questions that elicit his cleaving judgments.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult."
],
"links": [
[
"Complicated",
"complicated#Adjective"
],
[
"tricky",
"tricky"
],
[
"complex",
"complex#Adjective"
],
[
"difficult",
"difficult"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively)",
"Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "intricate"
},
{
"word": "thorny"
},
{
"word": "complex"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Of an austere or hard nature; rugged."
],
"links": [
[
"austere",
"austere"
],
[
"hard",
"hard#Adjective"
],
[
"nature",
"nature#Noun"
],
[
"rugged",
"rugged#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively)",
"Of an austere or hard nature; rugged."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnɒti/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnɑti/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾi]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "naughty (in accents with the cot–caught merger)"
},
{
"homophone": "noddy (with flapping)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒti"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-knotty.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-us-knotty.ogg/En-us-knotty.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-us-knotty.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čepat",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "чепат"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nuós"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "kuhmuinen"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "nasḳviani",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "ნასკვიანი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳvanʒiani",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "კვანძიანი"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ozódis",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "οζώδης"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "cranrach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nodoso"
},
{
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "natty"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nodosus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "mezglains"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "taurekereke"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "noueux"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "knoppijch"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "sękaty"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nodos"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sučkovátyj",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "сучкова́тый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots",
"word": "nudoso"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "složen",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "сложен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zapleten",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "заплетен"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "ingewikkeld"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "visainen"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "areul-dareuli",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "არეულ-დარეული"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ʒneli",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "ძნელი"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dysepílytos",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "δυσεπίλυτος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "polýplokos",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "πολύπλοκος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dýskolos",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "δύσκολος"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "manganga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "rīraparapa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "whīwhiwhi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapútannyj",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "запу́танный"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "complicated or tricky — see also complex, difficult",
"word": "knepig"
}
],
"word": "knotty"
}
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