tangly
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈtæŋɡli/
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enredado
- This kind of seaweed tangly thing is a form of love bombing that we don't always recognize.
What I'm going to say is that I love the fact that this is way less tangly than the other long and straight hair, which I find very surprising.
- What I'm going to say is that I love the fact that this is way less tangly than the other long and straight hair, which I find very surprising.
- This kind of seaweed tangly thing is a form of love bombing that we don't always recognize.
Examples
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It was so tangly, long, and thick; there had never seemed any point.
Fiction book (1990) -
What I'm going to say is that I love the fact that this is way less tangly than the other long and straight hair, which I find very surprising.
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This kind of seaweed tangly thing is a form of love bombing that we don't always recognize.
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Her long, tangly hair often gets caught on her coat when she puts it on.
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I struggled to untangle the tangly strings of Christmas lights before hanging them up.
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The tangly vines in the garden kept spreading all over the flowerbeds.
Synonyms
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7.0
Full of hard lumps and tangles, for example in wood or hair
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6.8
Tangled and full of knots like hair or thread
Tangled into messy knots that are hard to separate
Having rough, twisted bumps on wood or hands
Antonyms
How Tangled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tangly comes from the simple word tangle, which means 'to twist together', and the ending -y means 'full of'. So something tangly is 'full of twists' or knots, which is why hair, yarn, or bushes can be hard to comb or move through.