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knotty

adjective
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
Synonyms: baffling, problematic, problematical Similar: difficult, hard - used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted Similar: crooked - highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by lab
Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous Similar: complex
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