| ADJECTIVE | all | tangled | in a confused mass |
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| all | tangled, Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious |
| Sounds | tae'nggahld | |
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| Rhymes | addled ... wrinkled: 103 rhymes with ahld... | |
| Meaning | In a confused mass. | |
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| Narrower | afoul, foul, fouled | especially of a ship's lines etc |
| enmeshed, intermeshed | caught / caught / 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 | |
| Opposite | untangled | not tangled |
| Spanish | enmarañado, enredado | |
| Catalan | embolicat, embrollat, enredat | |
| Meaning | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. | |
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| Example | "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott | |
| Synonyms | Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous | |
| Broader | complex | complicated in structure |
| Spanish | bizantino, intrincado, laberíntico, tortuoso | |
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