Knotted

//ˈnɒtɪd// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of knot form-of, participle, past

    "He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of knots; knotty.

    "These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily."

  2. 2
    Tied in knots.
  3. 3
    Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
  4. 4
    Having the shape or form of a knot.

    "Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tied with a knot wordnet
  2. 2
    used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
gnarledtiedabstruseaccumulatedaffiliateaffiliated

Example

More examples

"To record something, they used knotted cords made of the wool of the llama or alpaca."

Etymology

From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.

Related phrases

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