Knotty - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 22/11/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Knotty.

4 letter answer(s) to knotty

HARD
  1. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
  2. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
  3. being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"
  4. causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
  5. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
  6. dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
  7. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
  8. earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
  9. given to excessive

5 letter answer(s) to knotty

TOUGH
  1. a cruel and brutal fellow
  2. an aggressive and violent young criminal
  3. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
  4. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
  5. not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
  6. physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
  7. resistant to cutting or chewing
  8. someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
  9. substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"
  10. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
  11. very d

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