knotty+question
61problem — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 sth that causes difficulties ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, big, enormous, grave, great, huge, important, major, serious, significant …
62Gordian knot — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, Rube Goldberg contraption, can of worms, complex, crux, dilemma, enigma, jungle, knot, knotty point, labyrinth, maze, meander, mesh, mess, node, nodus, nonplus, oxymoron, paradox, perplex, perplexity,… …
63dilemma — Synonyms and related words: Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, Gordian knot, Scylla and Charybdis, baffle, bafflement, bewilderment, bind, bother, box, catch 22, categorical syllogism, choice of Hercules, confoundment, confusion, corner,… …
64node — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, amplitude, antinode, block, body, cake, clump, cluster, concrete, concretion, conglomerate, conglomeration, crest, crux, de Broglie wave, diffraction, dilemma, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic… …
65nonplus — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, abecedarian, addle, amaze, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, astonish, astound, baffle, bafflement, balk, bamboozle, beat, bewilderment, blast, boggle, bother, brave, bring up short, buffalo,… …
66obscure — Synonyms and related words: Cimmerian, abstruse, adiaphanous, adumbrate, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, anonymous, apply to, arcane, around the bush, back of beyond, baffling, baggy, bandage,… …
67oxymoron — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, crux, dilemma, disproportion, disproportionateness, enigma, equivocality, equivocation, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hopelessness,… …
68paradox — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, contradiction, crux, dilemma, disproportion, disproportionateness, enigma, equivocality, equivocation, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity,… …
69quandary — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, baffle, bafflement, bewilderment, bother, confoundment, confusion, crux, difficulty, dilemma, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, embarrassment, enigma …
70teaser — Synonyms and related words: Artful Dodger, Casanova, Circe, Don Juan, Gordian knot, Lorelei, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Parthenope, Siren, act drop, actor, annoyer, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, badgerer, bamboozler, batten,… …
