tangledtan‧gled /ˈtæŋɡəld/ (also ˌtangled ˈup) adjective 
Your bedclothes are all tangled up. He had hair like tangled string.2complicated or not easy to understand: the tangled web of local politics tangled emotions
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He ran a hand through his tangled hair.
- The concrete highway was edged with tangled dry grass.
- the country's tangled politics
- Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades.
- In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses.
- The high savanna lowered into a lower, drier savanna, dark with thorny, tangled thickets.
- The series involves the tangled relationships of two families in the London suburb of Blackheath.
- The sheets lay tangled, hanging down on the threadbare carpet.
Longman Language Activatormixed untidily together
things such as papers, clothes, or objects that are mixed up are put together untidily when they do not belong together, or are in the wrong order: · The drawer was full of mixed up bits of paper, old letters, and photographs.· The tapes are a bit mixed up, but it shouldn't take too long to sort them out.
things such as papers, books, clothes etc that are jumbled are mixed together very untidily, especially in a pile, so that it is difficult to find anything: · A jumbled collection of clothes lay on the floor.· The rucksack contains several pockets to prevent odds and ends getting jumbled up.· a drawer full of letters all jumbled together
hair, grass, string etc that is tangled is mixed up and difficult to separate: · He ran a hand through his tangled hair.· The concrete highway was edged with tangled dry grass.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the tangled web of local politicsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a tangled web of relationships
1twisted together in an untidy mass: the tangled web of local politics a tangled web of relationships· Recovery teams continue to clear the tangled wreckage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· A mermaid with dark, tangled hair.· A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl.· He groaned and ran a hand through his tangled hair.
· Extensive branching leads to numerous contacts with the host, and ultimately covers the host with a tangled mass of vines.· Leonora lay gasping, arms outflung, eyes closed, her hair a tangled mass of damp curls against the pillow.· Compared with the tangled mass of filaments that form the mycelium of most growing fungi, the Laboulbeniales appear decidedly non-fungal.
· The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.· Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow?· Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged.· The tangled web of their past and present balled against the rage of Ruth's emotions.· Almost inevitably the issue had become caught up in a tangled web of local education politics.· Six more joined it, slowly screwing out of nothing, until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils.· With so many weapons to hand, some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives.· The Conservatives also promised to: reform the tangled web of income-related benefits which had grown up piecemeal over forty years.
Your bedclothes are all tangled up. He had hair like tangled string.2complicated or not easy to understand: the tangled web of local politics tangled emotions