tangled
adjectives
in a confused mass
"pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
antonym
is similar to
especially of a ship's lines etc
"with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
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twisted together in a tangled mass
"toiled through entangled growths of mesquite"
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tangled in knots or snarls
"a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
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having the roots matted or densely tangled
"shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs"- William Faulkner
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twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread
"thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn"
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
"the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
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