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knotted

adj
/ˈnɒtɪd/UK/ˈnɑtɪd/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from knotted

Definitions

  1. Full of knots

    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. Tied in knots.

  3. Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. simple past and past participle of knot

      • He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
      • Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at knotted. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at knotted. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at knotted

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA