Meanings
comparative more knotted · superlative most knotted
- 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.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99 - Tied in knots.
- Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
- 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.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of knot
Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.
1 more example
He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishknotted
- Englishknotted
From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Māori taurekereke
- taurekerekefull of knots
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with knotted
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knotted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knotted
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