Definitions for Tangled

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Tangled tan·gled

Spelling: [tang-guh ld]

IPA: /ˈtæŋ gəld/

Tangled is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in Tangled (adeglnt).

Definitions for Tangled

noun

1. a tangled condition or situation.
2. a tangled or confused mass or assemblage of something.
3. a confused jumble:
4. Informal. a conflict; disagreement:

adjective

1. snarled, interlaced, or mixed up:
2. very complicated, intricate, or involved:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
2. to involve in something that hampers, obstructs, or overgrows:
3. to catch and hold in or as if in a net or snare.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become tangled.
2. Informal. to come into conflict; fight or argue:

Origin of Tangled

First recorded in 1580-90; tangle¹ + -ed²

Examples for Tangled

"Aaron Goldschmidt," he whispered, as we descended into a dry, tangled swamp.

My life has been one long error, and the threads of my fate have been tangled.

It is unnecessary to repeat the whole of the long and tangled conversation that ensued.

The drain clogs in the shower every few days, and the clump of tangled brown hair is springy between my fingers.

If he hadn't been tangled up in his cod line, so we could haul him up by that, he'd have been down yet.

The last I saw of the trenches was the tangled line on Fusilier Bluff.

The relationships, and motivations of their chief participants, are as tangled and shady as you expect of the super-rich.

He acquired $1 billion worth of art and tangled scandalously with the authorities.

Palmer is, of course, just as tangled up, as human, as everybody else--and he knows it.

What astonishment that such beauty urges me into bed for a nightlong sweaty roll in tangled sheets.