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untangled

untangled

3.4
Free of knots and twists and easy to separate or understand
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈtæŋɡəld/
translation icon : desenredado
  • After hours of searching, the headphones were finally untangled from the mess of wires in the drawer.

He has beautiful, luscious, untangled, beautiful hair.

Examples

  • So, so this is the receptor binding domains RBDS that gets untangled and get ready to to to to get attached to to the receptor.

  • We did cut it a little at that point to make it easier to keep untangled.

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  • You probably can't see it's been untangled from there now.

  • And we're going to try to keep them relatively untangled, even though that's a relative term.

  • He has beautiful, luscious, untangled, beautiful hair.

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  • OK, So what we have then just to kind of wrap up this whirlwind tour of the ventral stream here we have some untangled explicit information.

  • She carefully pulled the yarn apart until it was completely untangled and ready to use.

  • The climber's rope, once untangled, was now easy to manage and secure.

Synonyms

unentangled
vsuntangled
4.6

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

is the same idea as the key concept
disentangled
vsuntangled
4.6

Free from knots or tangles and easy to understand

is the state of not being twisted together rather than the freeing action
unsnarled
vsuntangled
6.7

Not tangled after someone untied or straightened it

is the simple state free from tangles without implying past fixing action
knotless
vsuntangled
3.4

Wood or rope with no rounded imperfections that is smooth and easy to handle

is broader meaning free from general tangles not just knots

Antonyms

tangled
7 3.3

Twisted together in a messy mass that is hard to separate

How Tangled

matted
1 5.3
tangled
7 3.3
untangled
3.4

Surface Forms

untangled positive

Morphology

untangled = untangle (transparent) = un + tangle + ed

Formed by adding the regular past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed' to 'untangle', so the relation between the base verb and the adjective is direct and regular.

Etymology

Untangled is made of un- 'not' and tangle 'a twisted knot', so imagine hair or cables finally smoothed out. That's why untangled means not twisted and can also describe an idea or explanation that has been made clear.