tangled

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. in a confused mass (Freq. 5)
- pushed back her tangled hair
- the tangled ropes
• Ant:
untangled
• Similar to:
afoul, foul, fouled, enmeshed, intermeshed,
entangled, knotty, snarled, snarly, matted, rootbound,
thrown, thrown and twisted
2. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious (Freq. 2)
- 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, tortuous
• Similar to:
complex
• Derivationally related forms:
tortuousness (for: tortuous), knottiness (for: knotty)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  snarl, maze, entangle, mat, tousle, dishevel, ravel, knot, embroil, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  disentangle, unsnarl, straighten out, unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick, ravel, ravel out