Thesaurus / knotty
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The design — knotty pine floors, swirling ceiling fans, touches of pale blue — strikes just the right tone without screaming “CRAB HOUSE.”
GET YOUR MARYLAND CRAB FIX AT THE POINT CRAB HOUSE, ALONG WITH ACE SERVICE AND A WATER VIEWTOM SIETSEMAMAY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTInside, you’ll get knotty pine walls and a renovated farm-style kitchen.
11 AMAZING AIRBNBS NEAR THE GRAND CANYONMEGAN MICHELSONFEBRUARY 15, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEIt involved a geometric object called the amplituhedron that had been proposed as the answer to one of the knottiest problems in physics.
A MATHEMATICIAN’S UNANTICIPATED JOURNEY THROUGH THE PHYSICAL WORLDKEVIN HARTNETTDECEMBER 16, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINENebraska just lost a knotty one at Iowa and complained its center struggled with snaps because of clapping from the Iowa sideline.
ONCE OBVIOUS AND THRILLING, THREE COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHING HIRES HAVE LOST THEIR LUSTERCHUCK CULPEPPERNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAlso in this content collection, get help untangling some of AI’s newest, and knottiest, concepts.
THE FUTURE OF MOBILE AICASEY SULLIVANOCTOBER 7, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWOur nicely worked out system for supplying the troops has in a moment been tangled up into a hundred knotty problems.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe Cuban debts and the future of the Philippines were really the knotty points in the entire debate.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANDe Robeck and Keyes came over from the Triad to unravel knotty points.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONHis envoys had proposed to refer the knotty point to the decision of His Holiness; but 'this they absolutely declined.'
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONLandy Spencer drummed his knotty fingers on the armchair and looked thoughtfully at the old Nestor seated at his fireside.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEYWORDS RELATED TO KNOTTY
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- arduous
- backbreaking
- baffling
- burdensome
- demanding
- effortful
- exacting
- exhausting
- exigent
- grievous
- hairy
- handful
- hard
- heavy
- intractable
- intricate
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- mean
- no piece of cake
- onerous
- oppressive
- perplexing
- puzzling
- resisting
- severe
- stiff
- strenuous
- taxing
- thorny
- toilsome
- troublesome
- trying
- unyielding
- uphill
- weighty
- wicked
- arduous
- backbreaking
- baffling
- burdensome
- demanding
- effortful
- exacting
- exhausting
- exigent
- grievous
- hairy
- handful
- hard
- heavy
- intractable
- intricate
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- mean
- no piece of cake
- onerous
- oppressive
- perplexing
- puzzling
- resisting
- severe
- stiff
- strenuous
- taxing
- thorny
- toilsome
- troublesome
- trying
- unyielding
- uphill
- weighty
- wicked
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