tangled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtæŋ.ɡəld/
- Rhymes: -æŋɡəld
Adjective
tangled (comparative more tangled, superlative most tangled)
- Mixed up, interlaced.
- tangled knot
- 1789, William Blake, “A Dream”, in Songs of Innocence:
- Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn, / Dark, benighted, travel-worn, / Over many a tangled spray, / All heart-broke I heard her say
- 1919, Henry Head, “Paris. April, 1916”, in Destroyers and Other Verses:
- That like a mighty river onward streams / In multitudinous channels ruthlessly, / Past tangled isles and barriers of sand
- (by extension) Intricate.
Verb
tangled
- simple past tense and past participle of tangle