Tangled (Adjective)
Meaning 1
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
In a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- She carefully unraveled the tangled threads of the old sweater.
- The child had a tangled mess of a hairstyle after playing outside all day.
- The rescue team worked patiently to free the hikers from the tangled wreckage.
- The room was a disaster, with clothes and books scattered everywhere in a tangled heap.
- The gardener struggled to straighten the tangled branches of the tree after the storm.