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Tangled with knots

Having a knobbly or gnarled surface

Detailed and complicated in design and planning, involving many carefully arranged elements

Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment

Causing bother or frustration

Rough or problematic, resembling scales, flakes, or leprosy

Ungroomed or untidy in appearance

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Adjective

Tangled with knots

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“Hughes lowered the rope, and Ned chopped away part of the knotty net holding the crate.”

Adjective

Having a knobbly or gnarled surface

covered with lumps

strong-featured

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“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.”

Adjective

Detailed and complicated in design and planning, involving many carefully arranged elements

incomprehensible

difficult to understand

full of twists and turns

hard to understand

thought-provoking

full of surprises

impossible to separate

beyond comprehension

beyond one's grasp

hard to explain

above your head

over one's head

particularized^US

as clear as mud

particularised^UK

cloak-and-dagger

disorganized^US

disorganised^UK

out of the ordinary

clear as dishwater

beyond understanding

uncharacteristic

impossible to understand

open to argument

weird and wonderful

out of the common

uncomprehensible

uninterpretable

between the lines

without a solution

unable to be solved

not easily understood

breaking new ground

all Greek to someone

too hard to understand

too difficult to understand

all Greek to you

misrepresentative

unstraightforward

like nothing on earth

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“The narrator's knotty and convoluted syntax wryly suggests the slightly confused tenor of Poupin's thought.”

Adjective

Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment

like herding cats

discountenancing

impossible to cope with

pick-and-shovel

fraught with danger

playing with fire

jeopardizing^US

jeopardising^UK

hanging by a thread

easier said than done

energy-consuming

Russian roulette

on slippery ground

causing discomfort

emotionally draining

like getting blood out of a stone

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“The problem thus became both knotty and sensitive and it needed a delicate handling.”

Adjective

Causing bother or frustration

antagonizing^US

antagonising^UK

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

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Adjective

Full of knots

Adjective

Rough or problematic, resembling scales, flakes, or leprosy

Adjective

Ungroomed or untidy in appearance

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