| tangled | | |
| adj. | 1. tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
| ~ afoul, fouled, foul | especially of a ship's lines etc.; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" |
| ~ enmeshed, intermeshed | caught as if in a mesh.; "enmeshed in financial difficulties" |
| ~ entangled | twisted together in a tangled mass.; "toiled through entangled growths of mesquite" |
| ~ snarled, snarly, knotty | tangled in knots or snarls.; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" |
| ~ matted | tangled in a dense mass.; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth" |
| ~ rootbound | having the roots matted or densely tangled.; "shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs" |
| ~ thrown and twisted, thrown | twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread.; "thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn" |
| adj. | 2. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, 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" |
| ~ complex | complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" |
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