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English adjective: tangled | |||
| 1. | tangled in a confused mass | ||
| Samples | Pushed back her tangled hair. The tangled ropes. | ||
| Similar | afoul, enmeshed, entangled, foul, fouled, intermeshed, knotty, matted, rootbound, snarled, snarly, thrown, thrown and twisted | ||
| Antonyms | untangled | ||
| 2. | tangled highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | ||
| Samples | 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. Tortuous legal procedures. Tortuous negotiations lasting for months. | ||
| Synonyms | Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous | ||
| Similar | complex | ||
| Antonyms | simple | ||
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