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Meaning of tangled

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tangled
      adj 1: in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the
             tangled ropes" [ant: {untangled}]
      2: 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" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {involved},
         {knotty}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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