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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