tangled
Adjective
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In a confused mass (synset 300255923)
"pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"similar to:
- afoul, foul, fouled - especially of a ship's lines etc
- enmeshed, intermeshed - caught as if in a mesh
- entangled - twisted together in a tangled mass
- knotty, snarled, snarly - tangled in knots or snarls
- matted - tangled in a dense mass
- rootbound - having the roots matted or densely tangled
- thrown, thrown and twisted - twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread
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Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious (synset 302184401)
"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"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"similar to: complex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
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