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tangled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tangled has 2 senses
- tangled(a = adj.all) Array - in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" Antonym: untangled
- tangled(s = adj.all) byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous - 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"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
THESAURUS
tangled
Byzantine, balled up, 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, twistedROGET THESAURUS
tangled
Complexity
N complexity, complexness, complexus, complication, implication, intricacy, intrication, perplexity, network, labyrinth, wilderness, jungle, involution, raveling, entanglement, coil, sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels, kink, gnarl, knarl, webwork, difficulty, gnarled, knarled, complex, complexed, intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable, irreducible.
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