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tangled

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtæŋ.ɡəld//

Mixed up, interlaced.

adjective

  1. 1

    Mixed up, interlaced.

    tangled knot

    Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn, / Dark, benighted, travel-worn, / Over many a tangled spray, / All heart-broke I heard her say

    That like a mighty river onward streams / In multitudinous channels ruthlessly, / Past tangled isles and barriers of sand

    Lost inside a world I never belonged / Thinking that I knew my right from my wrong / Tangled in confusion feeling my way / Living in a shadow all shades of gray

  2. 2

    Intricate.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of tanglesimple past and past participle of tangle

Forms

comparative
more tangled
superlative
most tangled
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).