Gnarled

Adjective
gnarled


 * 1) knotty and misshapen
 * 2) made rough by age or hard work

Adverbs for Gnarled
roughly; ruggedly; scraggily; crookedly; sturdily; agedly; stumpily; robustly; massively; tenuously; thickly; rheumatically; gauntly; wirily.

Synonyms for Gnarled
gnarly, knotty, twisted, rugged, contorted, knotted.

Antonyms for Gnarled
smooth, straight, plain, direct.

Derived terms

 * gnarl

Thesaurus
arthritic, bent, bumpy, burled, contorted, crooked, distorted, gnarly, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, lumpy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, studded, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, twisted, warped

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:. Surface analysis is, though undefined: is a later back-formation. Popular use by 19th century.

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * French: noueux (-euse), ratatiné (e)

Anagrams

 * dangler