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tanglesome

tanglesome adjective: characterised or marked by entanglement, tangled, entangled.

Adjective

tanglesome (comparative more tanglesome, superlative most tanglesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by entanglement, tangled, entangled.
    • It is not to tease you, and hurt you, my sweet, / But only for kindness and care, / That I wash you and dress you, and make you look neat, / And comb out your tanglesome hair.1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl
  2. (UK, dialectal) Quarrelsome.

Forms of tanglesome

comparativemore tanglesome
superlativemost tanglesome

Origin of tanglesome

From tangle + -some.

Questions about tanglesome

What does tanglesome mean?
Tanglesome means characterised or marked by entanglement, tangled, entangled.
What part of speech is tanglesome?
Tanglesome is an adjective.

Words near tanglesome in the dictionary

  1. tangleproof
  2. tangler
  3. tangleroot
  4. tanglers
  5. tangles
  6. tanglesome
  7. tangless
  8. tangletalk
  9. Tanglewood
  10. tanglier
  11. tangliest

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