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imbroglios

imbroglios is the plural 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 imbroglios

alternative formimbroglii

Questions about imbroglios

What is imbroglios the plural of?
Imbroglios is the plural of imbroglio.

Words near imbroglios in the dictionary

  1. imbroccata
  2. imbroccatas
  3. imbrogli
  4. imbroglii
  5. imbroglio
  6. imbroglios
  7. Imbrogno
  8. Imbrognos
  9. Imbros
  10. imbrown
  11. imbrowned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbroglios (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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