tangled

Definition of tangled

Adjectives

in a confused mass
"pushed back her tangled hair"
"the tangled ropes"
Synonyms:
afoul, foul, fouled
especially of a ship's lines etc
enmeshed, intermeshed
caught as if in a mesh
entangled
twisted together in a tangled mass
knotty, snarled, snarly
tangled in knots or snarls
matted
tangled in a dense mass
rootbound
having the roots matted or densely tangled
thrown, thrown and twisted
twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread
Antonyms:
untangled
not tangled
disentangled, loosened, unsnarled
straightened out
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highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott
Synonyms:
Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous
complex
complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts

Vocabulary Lists for tangled

E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" »(115 words)
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  • leftovers
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fabrics »(932 words)
  • ability
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  • absorb
  • absorbency
  • absorbent

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Chapters 8-15 »(708 words)
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  • premeditate
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  • endue

William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Chapters 7-12 »(172 words)
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  • ensconce
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  • identifiable
  • illusive

William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Chapters 1-6 »(194 words)
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  • scavenge
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Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" Chapters 1-16 »(65 words)
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  • raspy
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  • welt
  • browse

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Chapters 6-9 »(242 words)
Vocabulary study list for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The...
  • addendum
  • meretricious
  • embroider
  • amorphous
  • septic

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage - Chapters 1 -6 »(668 words)
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  • regiment
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies »(431 words)
An excellent list of Lord of the Flies Vocabulary...
  • piggy
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Jack London's White Fang - Part 1 »(323 words)
An excellent vocabulary list for the first part of Jack...
  • red wolf
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Words that contain tangled

disentangled
 entangled
 untangled