knotty
3
7.0
- adjective
- /ˈnɑti/
:
nudos
- Her hair was knotty after a long day at the beach, full of tangles and knots.
- knotty pine
- knotty pine paneling
- knotty pine walls
Examples
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Behind me, the cabinets were made of knotty wood, polished a warm honey color.
Fiction book (1990) -
His hands were rough, the joints knotty, the fingers gnarled as twisted manzanita roots.
Fiction book (1994) -
A click of old, knotty fingers.
Fiction book (2000) -
When the bandages came off, his chest still felt tight and knotty.
Fiction book (1999) -
I get very, very knotty up my neck and in here on my shoulders, kind of where my neck meets my shoulders is probably my worst area.
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Half of it was unfinished, and the other half was paneled in knotty pine.
Fiction book (1994) -
Mornings were best for him, the water soothing his knotty, swollen joints, allowing him some semblance of mobility.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a sauna, less than five feet high, made of knotty pine planks and roofed with a sheet of turquoise plastic.
Fiction book (2002) -
Daylight shone in through the knotty pine boards, and no-see-ums bred in the spongy window frames.
Fiction book (2000) -
The crate, thick and knotty, sat open, the hoisting cable and anchor chains curled on the dock planks behind it.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
39
2.2
Not smooth because it has small pieces in it
12
7.1
A tree, hand, or face with a rough, twisted shape and large bumps
9
8.4
A rough, twisted surface with hard knots or bumps
7
3.3
Twisted together in a messy mass that is hard to separate
2
5.8
Something that has small rounded bumps like a potato
1
6.8
Tangled and full of knots like hair or thread
1
5.1
Full of knots that are hard to undo, like in hair or yarn
Having rough, twisted bumps on wood or hands
Having many small round lumps on the surface
A surface with small raised bumps like a rough sweater
Tangled into messy knots that are hard to separate
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
1
4.3
Pine wood with many knots used for wall panels and furniture to give a rustic look
How Knotty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Knotty comes from knot ('a tight lump or tangle') and the ending -y meaning 'full of'. So it was used for wood, hair, or body parts that are full of lumps or tangles and feel bumpy.