different between confusing vs knotty

confusing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?n?fju?z??/

Adjective

confusing (comparative more confusing, superlative most confusing)

  1. difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc
    Several sections in that book are really confusing.

Synonyms

  • muddlesome
  • mistakable
  • misleading

Related terms

  • confuse
  • confused
  • confusion

Translations

Verb

confusing

  1. present participle of confuse

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knotty

English

Etymology

From Middle English knotty, knotti, equivalent to knot +? -y. Compare Dutch knoestig (knotty), German knotig (knotty), Swedish knutig, knotig (knotty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?ti/
  • Homophone: naughty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
  • Rhymes: -?ti

Adjective

knotty (comparative knottier or more knotty, superlative knottiest or most knotty)

  1. Full of knots.
  2. Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
    Synonyms: intricate, thorny

Derived terms

  • Knotty Ash

Translations


Middle English

Alternative forms

  • knotti, cnotti

Etymology

From knotte +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kn?ti?/

Adjective

knotty

  1. knotted, tied, linked
  2. knotty, tangled, twisted
  3. knobby, bumpy, clumped
  4. knoblike, protruding

Descendants

  • English: knotty
  • Scots: knottie

References

  • “knott?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

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