knotted
- adjective
- /ˈnɑtɪd/
- The old tree had a rough, twisted, knotted trunk that bore witness to many stormy winters.
Because if you can breathe through that, that knotted up muscle will start to break up and it will start to get better.
- Because if you can breathe through that, that knotted up muscle will start to break up and it will start to get better.
Examples
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After hours of work in the garden, her hands were knotted and sore from pulling up weeds.
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Because if you can breathe through that, that knotted up muscle will start to break up and it will start to get better.
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My hair is so like puffy and knotted but just go pretend that's not happening.
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Well, the way that works is that there are certain structures in this hypergraph where you say that little twisty knotted thing.
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I remove barriers and I untie knots and sometimes our energy is all knotted up.
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I remove barriers and I untie knots and sometimes our energy is all knotted up.
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A bunch of random cables and things that like I have a massive bag of cables that is just like one huge like massive knotted ball of madness.
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It's a problem that's sort of like a big ball of knotted yarn where you got to pull one thread and then pull another one.
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Upside down birds, red specks of knotted wool glow above the sideways trees.
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The artist used a piece of knotted rope to create a unique texture in her sculpture.
Synonyms
A tree, hand, or face with a rough, twisted shape and large bumps
A rough, twisted surface with hard knots or bumps
Full of hard lumps and tangles, for example in wood or hair
Having many small round lumps on the surface
Antonyms
Compounds
How Knotted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Knotted comes from the same old word cnott as the modern knot, meaning 'knot' or the hard bump where a branch joins a tree. So a knotted tree or hand has rough, twisted bumps or knobs like those knots, and that is why we use the word for gnarled wood or bumpy hands.