1. gordian - Noun
2. gordian - Adjective
3. gordian - Adjective Satellite
4. Gordian - Proper noun
Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
Pertaining to the Gordiacea.
One of the Gordiacea.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe problems is mastered - insupportably tiring when it was impending. Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut. Marianne Moore
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Jean Cocteau
Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea A beacon blinks at its own brilliance, Over and over with cutlass gaze Solving the Gordian waters ... Richard Wilbur
As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps? Richard Dooling
According to Barnes: The people of the South and the West had for years been convinced of the enormity of the "crime of 1873", and they had long since come to regard silver as the sword that would cut the Gordian knot of privilege. Source: Internet
According to reviewer David Haddon: citation Mead has cut the Gordian knot of quantum complementarity. Source: Internet