[adj] in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
[adj] highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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"
Synonyms
afoul(ip), Byzantine, complex, convoluted, enmeshed, entangled, foul, fouled, intermeshed, intertwined, intricate, involved, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, matted, rootbound, snarled, snarly, thrown, thrown and twisted, tortuous