definition of
tangled

[1] #1 tangled a. in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes". wn

[2] #2 tangled s. [Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous] 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. wn