entangledadj.
/ɛnˈtaŋɡ(ə)ld/ In the senses of the verb: (a) caught or held fast in anything tangled; ensnared; (b) involved in difficulties; embarrassed, perplexed; †(c) (of an estate) encumbered (obsolete); (d) interlaced; complicated, intricate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective]
higheOE
dighela1000
deepc1000
darkOE
starkOE
dusk?c1225
subtle1340
dimc1350
subtilea1393
covert1393
mystica1398
murka1400
cloudyc1400
hard?c1400
mistyc1400
unclearc1400
diffuse1430
abstractc1450
diffused?1456
exquisitec1460
obnubilous?a1475
obscure?a1475
covered1484
intricate?a1500
nice?a1500
perplexeda1500
difficilea1513
difficult1530
privy1532
smoky1533
secret1535
abstruse?1549
difficul1552
entangled1561
confounded1572
darksome1574
obnubilate1575
enigmatical1576
confuse1577
mysteriousa1586
Delphic1598
obfuscatea1600
enfumed1601
Delphicala1603
obstruse1604
abstracted1605
confused1611
questionable1611
inevident1614
recondite1619
cryptic1620
obfuscated1620
transcendent1624
Delphian1625
oraculous1625
enigmatic1628
recluse1629
abdite1635
undilucidated1635
clouded1641
benighted1647
oblite1650
researched1653
obnubilated1658
obscurative1664
tenebrose1677
hyperbyssal1691
condite1695
diffusive1709
profound1710
tenebricose1730
oracular1749
opaque1761
unenlightening1768
darkling1795
offuscating1798
unrecognizable1817
tough1820
abstrusive1848
obscurant1878
out-of-focus1891
unplumbable1895
inenubilable1903
non-transparent1939
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]
yblenta1225
amazed?c1225
wory?c1225
mingedc1275
willc1300
distracta1340
confounded1362
confuse1362
distraitc1374
whapedc1374
wilsomea1375
poseletc1390
distraught1393
perplexa1425
wildc1440
wiltc1440
dodemusydc1450
mistedc1450
unclearc1475
mazed1493
perplexeda1500
traversablea1500
mazyc1525
entangled1561
muddy?1571
distraughted1572
moidered1587
wondering1592
puzzled1598
plundered1601
distracted1604
uncollected1613
wildered1642
turbid1647
tosticated1650
fuddled1656
pixie-led1659
puzzling1692
bumbazed1720
maffled1820
obfuscated1822
confused1825
muddly1829
mystified1833
maze1842
obfusticatedc1844
head-scratching1849
clueless1862
flustery1862
befogged1868
deurmekaar1871
mosy1887
skewgee1890
buggered-up1893
confusticated1898
smock-ravelled1904
messed-up1913
screwed-up1943
hung up1945
lost1967
gravelled-
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective]
snarledc1440
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
interlaqueate1575
kangled1577
intricate1579
ravelled1594
tangled1600
perplexed1605
intrincea1616
intertangleda1625
intangle1642
snarly1647
intertwisteda1659
tangly1813
reticular1818
uncardeda1833
tanglesome1888
warpled1897
pretzelled1938
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [adjective] > encumbered or with dues undischarged
in mortgagea1393
entangled1561
mortgageda1627
dipped1676
encumbered1847
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]
nice?a1500
plaited1532
intricablea1540
unsimple?1541
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
Gordian1606
involved1643
complexed1646
contortuplicated1648
complicated1656
puzzled1659
involute1669
complicatea1687
complex1715
woofed1820
snaggled1896
non-transparent1939
complexified1962
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 30 Such as in Scripture are to our capacitie doubtfull and entangled.
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 34 Now wrought she on his intangled wits as on an anuill.
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 140 The obscure and intangld wood of antiquity.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §7 Nothing can bee a greater evidence of an intangled mind.
1670 A. Marvell Let. to Mayor of Hull 1 Nov. in Wks. (1875) I. 338 The discourses growing long and intangled, one of the members..rose up.
1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Earl of Rochester 167 To recover an intangled Estate.
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 160 Seek'st thou for Hounds to..brush th' Entangled Covert?
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 329 Heaps of entangled conveyances or wills of a various obscurity.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 70 Long entangled in a thorny way.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine ii. 121 A somewhat entangled and delicate question.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xiv. §118. 397 Each deposit must be differently distributed by the entangled currents.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adverb]
wrappedly1589
entangledly1611
afoul1807
involutedly1879
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Perplexement, perplexedly, intricately, intangledly, troublesomely.
1687 H. More Contin. Remark. Stories (1689) 428 It was usual with these Goblins..to wind all this Yarn on these old pieces of Lumber, so perplexedly and entangledly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun]
obscuritya1522
incomprehensibility1598
entangledness1611
unconceivableness1611
unsearchableness1611
indiscernibleness1649
inscrutability1654
undiscoverableness1656
unscrutableness1657
unimaginableness1659
inconceivableness1661
unintelligibility1661
imperscrutableness1664
unknowableness1664
unintelligibleness1678
unfathomableness1690
inscrutableness1727
incognoscibility1824
uncognoscibility1827
unconjecturability1827
impenetrability1847
inconceivability1847
intangibility1847
untraceableness1856
incognizabilityc1860
incomprehensibleness1862
unknowability1863
unthinkability1865
elusiveness1873
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Perplexité Intanglednesse.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 241 Much of that intangledness which we find now in astronomy, would be taken away.
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