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Gnarled vs. Intricate — What's the Difference?

Gnarled vs. Intricate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gnarled and Intricate

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Gnarled

Having gnarls; knotty or misshapen
Gnarled branches.

Intricate

Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
An intricate pattern.
An intricate procedure.

Gnarled

Rugged and roughened, as from old age or work
The gnarled hands of a carpenter.

Intricate

Difficult to understand, analyze, or solve for having many interconnected elements.

Gnarled

Knotty and misshapen.
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Intricate

Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
The architecture of this clock is very intricate.

Gnarled

Made rough by age or hard work.

Intricate

(intransitive) To become enmeshed or entangled.

Gnarled

Simple past tense and past participle of gnarlEtymology 1

Intricate

(transitive) To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.

Gnarled

Simple past tense and past participle of gnarlEtymology 2

Intricate

Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
The nature of man is intricate.

Gnarled

Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.
The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak.

Intricate

To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses.

Gnarled

Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;
Gnarled and knotted hands
A knobbed stick

Intricate

Highly involved or intricate;
The Byzantine tax structure
Convoluted legal language
Convoluted reasoning
Intricate needlework
An intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology
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

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