Antonyms for tangle

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : tang-guhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæŋ gəl

Definition of tangle

Origin : mid-14c., nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Swedish taggla "to disorder," Old Norse þongull "seaweed"). In reference to material things, from c.1500. Meaning "to fight with" is American English, first recorded 1928. Related: Tangled; tangling. Tanglefoot (1859) was Western American English slang for "strong whiskey."

noun knot, confusion
verb knot, complicate

Example sentences :

"It wasn't just a tangle, like combings," she went on slowly.
Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower

He looked backward from the heights above the tangle after they had come through it.
Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter

It is a nest of greenery in the midst of a tangle of brushwood.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

What on earth could I do when affairs were in such a tangle?
Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro

There was a tangle of undergrowth, and a heavy grove of palms.
Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael

I suppose he worries dreadfully about his part of the tangle.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

This time he got further into the tangle before he grounded.
Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

There were some weather-beaten trees and a tangle of shrubs about it.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

The tangle is a shocking one—lies, lies everywhere, and in the places where they were least to be expected.
Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini

He made her lift her face from the tangle of silk bed quilts.
Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley

Synonyms for tangle

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