tangled Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
embroil; sweep; drag; drag in; sweep up; tangle.
- They were swept up by the events
- don't drag me into this business
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verb tangle or complicate
tangle; ravel; knot.
- a ravelled story
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verb disarrange or rumple; dishevel
tousle; dishevel; tangle.
- The strong wind tousled my hair
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verb twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
entangle; snarl; tangle; mat.
- The child entangled the cord
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adjective in a confused mass
- pushed back her tangled hair
- the tangled ropes
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adjective satellite highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Byzantine; tortuous; convoluted; involved; knotty.
- 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
