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knotty

C2 adj

knotty /ˈnɑti/ nghĩa là đầy nút thắt, rối rắm

Các nghĩa

  1. đầy nút thắt, rối rắm

    Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.

    Their heads are long, their haire curld, and ſeeming rather wooll, then haire; tis blacke and knotty: […]

  2. đầy mấu, sần sùi

    Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.

    a knotty pine

    If thou murmur'ſt, I vvwill rend an Oake / And peg thee in his knotty entrailes, till / Thou haſt hovvl'd avvay tvvelve vvinters.

  3. phức tạp, rắc rối

    Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.

    figuratively

    a knotty problem

    crop-headed, short-haired

    It’s the knottier questions that elicit his cleaving judgments.

  4. khắc nghiệt, gồ ghề

    Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.

    figuratively

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