'Tangled' definitions:
Definition of 'tangled'
(from WordNet)
adjective
In a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" [ant: untangled]
adjective
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous]
Definition of 'Tangled'
From: GCIDE
- Tangle \Tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling.] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]
- 1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. --Crashaw. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tangled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- balled up,
- Byzantine,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- daedal,
- devious,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- fouled up,
- implicated,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- perplexed,
- ramified,
- roundabout,
- screwed up,
- snarled,
- subtle,
- tangly,
- twisted