adjective
Etymology: from past participle of tangle (I)
1. : existing in or giving the appearance of a state of utter disorder : jumbled , snarled : thickly intertwined
the tangled path which led beneath the ruined walls — Sheila Rowlands
around us loom the tangled masses of peaks — P.A.Moore
twenty miles of tangled traffic — Claudia Cassidy
2. : exceedingly complex : very involved
laws had failed to resolve the tangled case — New York Times
a simplification of tangled customs rules — Newsweek