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embroglio

embroglio is the alternative form of imbroglio.

Meaning of imbroglio

Noun

imbroglio (plural imbroglios or imbrogli)

  1. A complicated situation; an entanglement.
    • Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.1816, Thomas Gray, “A Long Story”, in John Mitford, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray; Vol. I Containing the Poems, with Critical Notes; a Life of the Author; and an Essay on His Poetry; by the Rev....
    Synonyms:
    snarl

Forms of embroglio

pluralembroglios

Questions about embroglio

What is embroglio the alternative form of?
Embroglio is the alternative form of imbroglio.

Words near embroglio in the dictionary

  1. embrocated
  2. embrocates
  3. embrocating
  4. embrocation
  5. embrocations
  6. embroglio
  7. embroglios
  8. embroid
  9. embroider
  10. embroidered
  11. embroiderer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embroglio (page history and authors); imbroglio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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