'Entanglement' definitions:
Definition of 'entanglement'
From: WordNet
noun
An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: web, entanglement]
Definition of 'Entanglement'
From: GCIDE
- Entanglement \En*tan"gle*ment\, n.
- 1. State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps, or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbor entrance. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'entanglement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- absorption,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- advanced work,
- affair,
- amour,
- association,
- balistraria,
- bamboozlement,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- calculated deception,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- circumvention,
- cobweb,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- conning,
- contact,
- contravallation,
- convolution,
- counterscarp,
- crabbedness,
- cuckoldry,
- curtain,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- dupery,
- earthwork,
- embarrassment,
- embroilment,
- enclosure,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entrapment,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- eternal triangle,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- forbidden love,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hoodwinking,
- illicit love,
- illusion,
- implication,
- inclusion,
- infidelity,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- intrigue,
- involution,
- involvement,
- kidding,
- liaison,
- loophole,
- love affair,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- meshes,
- mirage,
- mound,
- outwitting,
- outwork,
- overreaching,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- perplexity,
- phantasm,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- putting on,
- ramification,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- relation,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stockade,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- swindling,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- tenaille,
- toils,
- triangle,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- unfaithfulness,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- victimization,
- vision,
- web,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- work