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Synonyms for gnarly
ˈnɑr lignar·ly
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gnarlyadjective
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dreadful, cool, discordant, knobbly, knobby, gnarled, awful, nastygnarlyadjective
having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled
On the right of the station were two gnarly cottonwood trees... Mark Goodwin, Last Words
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dreadful, awful, discordant, knobby, knobbly, gnarled, nasty, coolgnarlyadjective
dangerous
When the swell struck, the North Shore got gnarly, and the wise ones hit the outer islands where the energy was just as juicy but a bit more organized. Surfer Magazine, March 1977
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awful, knobby, discordant, knobbly, gnarled, cool, nasty, dreadfulgnarlyadjective
unpleasant, awful, ugly
We're not talking about a lame chick and a gnarly guy. We're talking about a couple of far-out dudes. D. Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma
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knobby, awful, nasty, cool, dreadful, discordant, knobbly, gnarledgnarlyadjective
excellent, attractive
There ain't nothing gnarlier (apparently) than slapping on some brightly coloured sunblock to ward off the blinding spectre of dangerous, snow-reflected sunlight. Glasgow Sunday Herald, 16 January 2000
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knobby, nasty, discordant, awful, gnarled, knobbly, dreadful, coolgnarlyadjective
Of music or a sound, harsh
[She] displays the same love of gnarly fuzztones and shout-it-out-loud choruses that began back in her daze [sic] with local all-girl rockers the Runaways. Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1986
Synonyms:
gnarled, dreadful, knobby, cool, knobbly, discordant, nasty, awful
Princeton's WordNet
gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbedadjective
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
"gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
Synonyms:
tangled, baffling, problematic, convoluted, tortuous, gnarled, tough, snarly, problematical, involved, snarled, knotted, elusive, knotty, knobbedAntonyms:
straight
Dictionary of English Synonymes
gnarlyadjective
Synonyms:
GNARLED
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1376 | involved | |
#1457 | cool | |
#4924 | tough | |
#7683 | nasty | |
#9775 | awful | |
#14988 | problematic | |
#20139 | elusive | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#25735 | tangled | |
#37075 | knotted | |
#41131 | convoluted | |
#53611 | baffling | |
#65631 | discordant | |
#68031 | knotty | |
#72606 | tortuous | |
#79304 | snarled | |
#89990 | gnarly | |
#99916 | gnarled | |
#107333 | problematical | |
#116626 | knobby | |
#270102 | knobbly | |
#273936 | knobbed |
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After destroying my family, in and out of jail, in and out of treatment, I was living on the streets and doing what people have to do on the streets to support a really gnarly heroin habit, in August of 2011, I was brought to the Midnight Mission homeless.
I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there.
I think you'll learn about what Natasha Romanoff is afraid of, and I think you'll learn about what parts of Natasha Romanoff Natasha Romanoff's afraid of, you really see Natasha Romanoff in, like, a pretty broken-down place, and Natasha Romanoff kinda has to build Natasha Romanoff back up and pull all the pieces together in this film. It gets kind of gnarly, but good gnarly.
The description in his email was it was a bit of a gnarly dive, which means there were complications and problems, quite a strong flow, current, so they're having to swim against the current and pull themselves along the walls. The visibility in the water wouldn't have been very good.
You've taken at least one gnarly part of the equation out, you no longer have a human exposed at quite the rate. On the logistics side, this is a tremendous opportunity.
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