knotty+point
31quandary — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, baffle, bafflement, bewilderment, bother, confoundment, confusion, crux, difficulty, dilemma, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, embarrassment, enigma …
32sticker — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, adherent, adhesive, baffling problem, barnacle, billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brain twister, bramble, brand, brier, bristle, broad arrow, bulldog, burr, cachet, cactus, catchweed, cement, check,… …
33stumper — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, baffling problem, brain twister, campaigner, crossword puzzle, crux, electioneer, enigma, enigmatic question, floorer, jigsaw puzzle, knot, knotty point, mind boggler, mystery, nut to crack, perplexed… …
34teaser — 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,… …
35tough proposition — Synonyms and related words: Augean task, Chinese puzzle, Herculean task, backbreaker, baffling problem, ballbuster, bitch, brain twister, chore, crossword puzzle, crux, dead lift, enigma, enigmatic question, floorer, handful, hard job, hard pull …
36why — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, argument, baffling problem, brain twister, conundrum, crossword puzzle, crux, enigma, enigmatic question, excuse, explanation, floorer, for which, for why, from what cause, ground, how come, jigsaw… …
37cnotta — m ( n/ n) knot, fastening; knotty point, puzzle …
38poser — n. 1. Puzzler, close examiner. 2. Riddle, enigma, mystery, knotty point …
39puzzle — I. v. a. 1. Perplex, embarrass, bewilder, confound, stagger, pose, nonplus, confuse, mystify, gravel. 2. Make intricate, entangle, complicate. II. n. 1. Riddle, enigma, labyrinth, maze. 2. Perplexity, embarrassment, bewilderment, confusion, dark… …
40complexity — n 1. intricacy, network, complex, complicacy; web, webwork, tangle, tangled skein, sleave; coil, twist, involution, circuity, tortuosity, sinuosity, meander, ambagiousness, flexuosity. 2. complication, problem, perplexity, puzzle, riddle,… …
