| pugnacious | | |
| adj. | 1. hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious | tough and callous by virtue of experience. |
| ~ tough | not given to gentleness or sentimentality.; "a tough character" |
| adj. | 2. pugnacious, rough | ready and able to resort to force or violence.; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"; "they were rough and determined fighting men" |
| ~ aggressive | having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends.; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers" |
| troublesome | | |
| adj. | 1. troublesome | difficult to deal with.; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| knotty | | |
| adj. | 1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 2. gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" |
| ~ crooked | having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" |
| adj. | 3. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" |
| ~ complex | complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" |
| adj. | 4. knotty, snarled, snarly | tangled in knots or snarls.; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" |
| ~ tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
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