Knotty

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ADJ

baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough

making great mental demands

gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knobbed

used of old persons or old trees

Byzantine, convoluted, involved, tangled, tortuous

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

snarled, snarly

tangled in knots or snarls

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