In a manner or degree that is impossible to extricate or separate
Adverb for tangled with knots
“Hughes lowered the rope, and Ned chopped away part of the knotty net holding the crate.”
Adverb for having a knobbly or gnarled surface
“The 31-room lodge sits right on Lake Superior and is all Scandinavian, with hand-hewn beams, massive stone fireplaces, and guest rooms of high-gloss knotty pine.”
Adverb for detailed and complicated in design and planning, involving many carefully arranged elements
“The narrator's knotty and convoluted syntax wryly suggests the slightly confused tenor of Poupin's thought.”
Adverb for requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment
“The problem thus became both knotty and sensitive and it needed a delicate handling.”
Adverb for knotted or twisted together untidily
Adverb for being in a confused or choatic mess
Adverb for causing bother or frustration
Adverb for full of knots, knotty
Adverb for difficult
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