knotty

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɒti/    美 /ˈnɑti/|[-ɾi]

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
    — I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]
  2. Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
    — a knotty pine
  3. Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult. figuratively
    — a knotty problem
  4. Of an austere or hard nature; rugged. figuratively
    — [A] witte in youth, that is not ouer dulle, heauie, knottie and lumpiſhe, but hard, rough, and though ſomwhat ſtaffiſhe, […] ſuch a witte I ſay, if it be, at the firſt well handled by the mother, and rightlie ſmothed and wrought as it ſhould, not ouerwhartlie, and against the wood, by the ſcholemaſter, both for learning, and hole courſe of liuing, proueth alwaies the beſt.

词形变化

knottier comparative more knotty comparative knottiest superlative most knotty superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
knottily knottiness Knotty Ash unknotty
相关词
knot knotting

词源

From Middle English knotti, knotty (“having a knot in it; full of knots; tied together (?); resembling a knot, knotlike; having knobs or protuberances; bulging, convex; of a tree, branch, etc.: full of knots, gnarled; of a plant cutting to be grafted or planted: full of buds or eyes; having joints (?); having swollen joints; of flesh: glandular; of flesh: granular, lumpy, especially, having many swellings; mangy, scurfy (?); having pimples (?); of cauterization: carried out on glandular tissue; (figuratively) of a question or problem: difficult, intricate”) [and other forms], from knotte (“knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake”) (from Old English cnotta (“knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gned- (“to bind”)) + -i (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). The English word may be analysed as knot + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).
Cognates
* Dutch knoestig (“knotty”)
* German knotig (“knotty”)
* Swedish knotig, knutig (“knotty”)
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