knotted

adj. gnarled, entangled; intricate, complicated

v. tie; make knots; unite; fasten; entangle

Adjective
1. tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"
(similar) tied, fastened
2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
(synonym) gnarled, gnarly, knotty, knobbed
(similar) crooked
3. tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
(synonym) snarled, snarly
(similar) tangled

Noun
1. a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
(hypernym) bunch, clump, cluster, clustering
2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
(hypernym) fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
(hyponym) barrel knot, blood knot
3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
(hypernym) wood
(part-holonym) board, plank
4. something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"
(synonym) gnarl
(hypernym) distorted shape, distortion
(derivation) ravel, tangle
5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
(synonym) nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
(hypernym) nautical linear unit
6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
(synonym) slub, burl
(hypernym) roughness
7. a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
(synonym) grayback, Calidris canutus
(hypernym) sandpiper
(member-holonym) Calidris, genus Calidris
Verb
1. make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
(hypernym) create from raw material, create from raw stuff
(hyponym) macrame
(derivation) gnarl
2. tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
(hypernym) tie, bind
3. tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
(synonym) ravel, tangle
(antonym) unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick
(hypernym) intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
(derivation) gnarl

(imp. & p. p.)
of Knot
  

(a.)
Interwoven; matted; entangled.
  

(a.)
Having intersecting lines or figures.
  

(a.)
Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.
  

(a.)
Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
  

(a.)
Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.
  

zhang1 kou3 jie2 she2
The mouth is open but there's a knot on the tongue.
Being unable to speak.

adj.
1. full of knots
گٹھيلا, گانٹھ دار, گرہ دار
2. difficult
مشکل, سخت, پيچيدہ, پيچ دار, مغلق, دشوار