disentangled

Examples

• All

• After hours of work, the threads of the fabric were finally disentangled and ready for sewing.

• The story became clearer once the author disentangled the chaotic plot points.

• Now they're disentangled; they get up groggily and circle each other...

  Fiction book (1992)

• Unchecked U.S. power, shorn of legitimacy and disentangled from the postwar norms and institutions of the international order, will usher in a more hostile international system, making it far harder to achieve American interests.

  Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

U

untied

vsdisentangled

5 1.6

Free from ropes or chains and able to move

focuses on clearing knots or complications rather than release from bindings

U

untangled

vsdisentangled

1 3.4

Free of knots and twists and easy to separate or understand

also covers making things clear rather than only removing physical knots

U

unentangled

vsdisentangled

1 4.6

Free from knots and tangles and easy to understand, like a necklace

means the same but is a different word form

U

unsnarled

vsdisentangled

1 6.7

Not tangled after someone untied or straightened it

also refers to clarifying confusion rather than just straightening knots

U

unmuddled

vsdisentangled

1 6.3

Clear and easy to understand without confusion

also implies removing physical knots or making complex things simple

Antonyms

C

complicated

∞ 5.4

Difficult to understand or deal with because it has many connected parts

T

tangled

20 6.8

Very complicated and hard to follow, like rules or relationships

How Untangled

free

152 1.0

disentangled

1 4.6

tangled

32 3.3

knotted

13 1.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology