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Definition of Tangled
1. Adjective. In a confused mass. "The tangled ropes"
Antonyms: Untangled
2. Adjective. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. "Tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
Similar to: Complex
Derivative terms: Knottiness, Tortuousness
Definition of Tangled
1. Verb. (past of tangle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tangled
1. tangle [v] - See also: tangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tangled
Literary usage of Tangled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"It had tangled me all up in a knot every ... We went , booming along, taking a
good mam ; chances, for we were anxious to ' get 'A tangled KNOT. ..."
2. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2001)
"He bent over the boy and contemplated him with kind and pitying interest, tapping
the young cheek tenderly and smoothing back the tangled curls with his ..."
3. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... covered on one side with sandstones and juniper-trees tangled together, while
on the other side the ground, almost quite bare, slopes towards the hollow ..."
4. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which
my infancy knew ! The wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it, ..."
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