tangled
7
3.3
- adjective
- /ˈtæŋɡəld/
:
enredado
- He tried to sort through the tangled cords under his desk without any success.
- a tangled forest
Those roots would be so tangled up and so just intertwined.
- Those roots would be so tangled up and so just intertwined.
- They're all just completely tangled up.
- I've been brushing it up right to the top so it doesn't get like, you know, dreaded or tangled right by the part that's sewn in.
- My hair isn't as tangled as I thought it would be, so that's halfway.
- So I'm going to take my little spoolie and just brush my brows up there just so they're not all like tangled together.
- Soon they disappeared through the tangled woods, and only Night understood their words.
- These may be the islands where a lost girl with tangled hair and a shell in her hand can see the other side of the world.
- It gets like tangled and grows, so I'm no longer using that, but I'm just going to spray a little bit around the roots.
Examples
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How did you get your hair in such a tangled mess, huh?
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But these belts are a little bit tangled around each other.
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The young man suddenly pulled out a tangled chain, on which was hanging a small key.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her hair was ratty and wild brown, tangled like a forgotten nest.
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Will and Diamond hide in a hollow beneath the tangled roots of a huge tree.
Fiction book (1996) -
As usual, her long dark hair was a tangled riot of curls.
Fiction book (2001) -
Behind the spring, the exposed roots of a cottonwood dropped a tangled skirt down the bank.
Fiction book (2002) -
Helen stopped there, listening and peering through the tangled stems of the willow.
Fiction book (1998) -
The wind tossed her hair into dark, tangled paths; for an instant, her eyes reflected moonlight.
Fiction book (1993) -
He picked me out of a pile of pups, a tangled mass of paws and tails.
Synonyms
4
5.5
Closely joined so the parts are hard to separate
3
7.0
Full of hard lumps and tangles, for example in wood or hair
1
5.3
Twisted together, like wires, or stuck in a difficult situation
1
4.5
Fitted closely so parts stay joined and are hard to separate
Tangled into messy knots that are hard to separate
Closely linked or mixed so they cannot be easily separated
Having rough, twisted bumps on wood or hands
Mixed together in a confused and untidy way
Antonyms
How Tangled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tangled comes from the old word tangle, which meant 'to twist together' and was often used for ropes, hair, or nets — picture hair or rope in knots you cannot pull apart. So tangled describes things twisted into a messy mass that are hard to separate.