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Impenetrable vs Knotty - What's the difference?

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Impenetrable is a related term of knotty.


As adjectives the difference between impenetrable and knotty

is that impenetrable is impenetrable while knotty is full of knots.

impenetrable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not penetrable.
    • The fortress is impenetrable , so it cannot be taken.
  • * '>citation
    • The avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
  • (figuratively) ; inscrutable.
    • Business jargon makes this document impenetrable , I can't understand it.

    Antonyms

    * penetrable

    knotty

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Full of knots.
    • knotty pine
  • Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult.
    • a knotty problem