gnarly
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8.4
- adjective
- /ˈnɑrli/
:
retorcido
- Outside the hotel room window, he sees the bare, gnarly branches of a cherry tree in silhouette against a background of pure white.
- gnarly oak
- gnarly tree
- gnarly old
I also get some pretty gnarly dark circles.
- I also get some pretty gnarly dark circles.
- It was just these gnarly burns on his face.
- Keith vlogs day check out this gnarly centipede millipede Look at him.
- They're coming from being a young naive doorman to to the old gnarly one that that that you meet.
- And they, they look so prehistoric and gnarly.
- People thought paratroopers were all like big, tall, tall, mean, mean men and like big and gnarly, not young looking little skinny, skinny guys.
- We're really gnarly and gritty and, and not wide and really irritating.
Examples
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I looked down as I pressed his large, gnarly hands together on his knee.
Fiction book (1996) -
It was just these gnarly burns on his face.
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How about the big, big, gnarly burger?
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I just saw this old guy in the hallway with these gnarly scabs all over his body.
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A full moon throws shadows of gnarly oak trees across the fields.
Blog text (23) -
Back in the day, they only skated half of Tuna because the rest was too gnarly.
Blog text (18) -
I haven't heard "gnarly" since I was surfing gnarly waves.
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She has a pretty gnarly scar on her forehead, right?
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The garden is old and shady with gnarly trees and herbs tucked into the few corners that catch the sun.
Blog text (8) -
The ancient tree had a gnarly trunk, twisted and full of knots.
Synonyms
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7.1
A tree, hand, or face with a rough, twisted shape and large bumps
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7.0
Full of hard lumps and tangles, for example in wood or hair
2
5.8
Something that has small rounded bumps like a potato
Having rough, twisted bumps on wood or hands
Having many small round lumps on the surface
With rough parts that catch or tear other things
How Rough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gnarly comes from the word gnarl, which means a rough, twisted knot on a tree, so gnarly describes something 'knotted', rough, or full of bumps, like old branches or worn hands.