adj
Meaning 1
Knotty and misshapen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
gnarled
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Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Made rough by age or hard work.
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verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1)
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Usage: form-of, participle, past
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verb
Meaning 4
simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2)
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Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- gnarled and knotted hands
- a knobbed stick
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
First attested Shakespeare 1603: : Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable [unwedgable] and gnarled Oke [oak]. : Measure for Measure, Act II, scene ii, line 116 Variant of knurled, from knurl. By surface analysis, gnarl + -ed, though gnarl is a later back-formation. Popular use by 19th century.
See gnarl (Etymology 2).
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: сутыр (sutır) — knotty and misshapen
- Bulgarian: чепат (čepat) — knotty and misshapen
- Bulgarian: чворест (čvorest) — knotty and misshapen
- Catalan: nuós — knotty and misshapen
- Czech: zkroucený — knotty and misshapen
- Czech: sukovitý — knotty and misshapen
- Dutch: knoestig — knotty and misshapen
- Dutch: misvormd — knotty and misshapen
- Finnish: pahkainen — knotty and misshapen
- Finnish: ryhmyinen — knotty and misshapen
- French: noueux — knotty and misshapen
- French: ratatiné — knotty and misshapen
- German: knorrig — knotty and misshapen
- Irish: fadharcánach — knotty and misshapen
- Irish: cnapánach — knotty and misshapen
- Italian: bitorzoluto — knotty and misshapen
- Italian: nodoso — knotty and misshapen
- Kyrgyz: чотур (cotur) — knotty and misshapen
- Māori: pūioio — knotty and misshapen
- Māori: pūwharawhara — knotty and misshapen
- Polish: sękaty — knotty and misshapen
- Russian: коря́вый (korjávyj) — knotty and misshapen
- Southern Altai: чодур (čodur) — knotty and misshapen
- Spanish: nudoso — knotty and misshapen
- Swedish: knotig — knotty and misshapen
- Tatar: чутыр (çutır) — knotty and misshapen
- Ukrainian: коструба́тий (kostrubátyj) — knotty and misshapen
- Ukrainian: коря́вий (korjávyj) — knotty and misshapen
- Ukrainian: вузлува́тий (vuzluvátyj) — knotty and misshapen
- Uzbek: chotir — knotty and misshapen
- French: noueux — made rough by age or hard work
- Irish: casta — made rough by age or hard work
- Ukrainian: коря́вий (korjávyj) — made rough by age or hard work