tangled — OAT

tangled

adjective

1 her tangled hair:

raveled, entangled, snarled (up), entwined, intertwisted, twisted, knotted, knotty, enmeshed, coiled, matted, tangly, messy, muddled;

tousled, uncombed, unkempt, ratty;

informal mussed up.

2 a tangled bureaucratic mess:

confused, jumbled, mixed up, messy, chaotic, scrambled, complicated, involved, convoluted, complex, intricate, knotty, tortuous, devious, mazelike, labyrinthine;

rare involute, involuted.

▷antonyms simple, straightforward.